Heightening the availability and security of critical information assets

In today's healthcare and pharmaceutical companies, information must flow freely across enterprise-scale networks to ensure quality patient care and advances in medical research. Yet given the sensitive and often proprietary nature of this information (not to mention strict HIPAA mandates to protect patient privacy), these firms must also safeguard their networks against unauthorized access in an era of unprecedented security attacks.

Both network operations and security teams in leading healthcare and pharmaceutical companies are relying on Arbor Peakflow X to ensure the optimal availability and security of their networking infrastructures. With the power to proactively detect internal and external threats, organizations can ramp up security, stop the proliferation of attacks and maintain 24/7 availability. And with network-wide visibility, they can instantly identify unauthorized usage and ensure compliance.

The Peakflow X solution

• Leverages "IP Flow" technology in existing network switch and router infrastructure to deliver pervasive, cost-effective network visibility for real-time analysis, historical reporting or capacity planning purposes.
• Conducts Network Behavioral Analysis (NBA) to automatically determine what's "normal" on your network and subsequently alert you to abnormalities which could be caused by simple mis-configurations or unauthorized malicious activity such as: scans/floods, zero-day attacks, spy/malware or internal misuse.
• Provides another layer of defense in your "defense in-depth strategy," as it not only complements existing security products, such as firewalls, IDS/IPS and AV, but also augments them by detecting new zero-day threats or insider misuse that are missed by those same products.
• Is backed by a team of industry-leading security researchers called the Arbor Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT), who provide up-to-date information and network behavioral "fingerprints" via the Active Threat Feed (ATF) service, for detection and analysis of known and unknown threats such as worms, botnets, phishing/pharming, host/ports scans and other malware.
• Easily produces customizable, on-demand or scheduled network usage reports which can ease the burden associated with meeting internal or regulatory compliance (i.e. HIPAA, SOX, GLBA, PCI, etc.) or conducting in-depth forensics.