Arbor Networks Establishes Arbor Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT) to Evaluate Burgeoning Internet-Scale Threats.

LEXINGTON, Mass. -- Arbor Networks(R), a leader in network security, today announced the creation of the Arbor Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT), the company's security research arm responsible for developing innovative solutions and processes to better protect Arbor Networks' customers.

Arbor Networks' ASERT is comprised of leaders in the information security industry, including Jeff Nathan, Dr. Jose Nazario, Dug Song and Mark Zielinski, among others. ASERT engineers each have spent at least 10 years working on vulnerability and exploit research, host-based Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) development, Intrusion Detection System (IDS) signature development, and malicious code reverse engineering.

Collaborating with Arbor Networks' Security Operations Center (SOC), ASERT mines and correlates up-to-the minute data from the world's largest tier-one Internet service providers (ISPs) to identify and qualify Internet-scale threats, including malicious code propagations, worms and DDoS attacks. By employing automation techniques, this sizable dataset is analyzed continuously to develop and update Arbor Active Threat Feed (ATF) fingerprints, complete with threat analyses, which are pushed directly to globally deployed Arbor Peakflow X and SP appliances.

"Since the company's inception, Arbor Networks has tackled the hardest network security problems facing our global business customers," said Sunil James, Arbor's product manager for security services, and ASERT manager. "In building the ASERT team, Arbor Networks sought the 'best of the best', from the security community - individuals wanting to be part of an organization with a mandate to solve tomorrow's largest threats."

Unlike other security research groups, ASERT tracks and identifies in real-time network-level threats using behavioral anomaly detection, ones that transcend from the "cloud to the core". In particular, ASERT's extensive global network visibility enabled the group in March 2006 to quickly notify the Dutch CERT team of a massive botnet targeting Dutch enterprises. Collectively, the two organizations were able to immediately shut down the botnet successfully.

About Active Threat Feed (ATF)

ASERT engineers update Arbor Networks' ATF policies, which broaden Arbor Peakflow(R) threat detection capabilities by delivering a feed of robust, continually-updated behavioral security fingerprints. Arbor's pioneering flow-based behavior detection techniques leveraged within each ATF policy are optimized to detect composite, multi-stage threats plaguing global business networks. With ATF, Peakflow customers have available at their fingertips the most comprehensive and thorough composite threat detection capability within any behavioral anomaly detection system on the market today.

ATF employs a novel and rigorous approach to properly classifying composite threats without requiring any "heavy lifting" from network operators. With this approach, Arbor Peakflow has more context about identified network traffic, thereby allowing for more precise identification of truly malicious threats. With ATF, the Arbor Peakflow platform continues to push the envelope in composite threat detection, offering customers increased robustness, accuracy, and protection against a range of composite attacks facing networks today.

About Arbor Networks

Arbor Networks ensures the security and operational integrity of the world's most critical networks. Arbor's solutions are based on the proven Peakflow platform, intelligent technology for network-wide data collection, analysis, anomaly detection, and threat mitigation. Arbor Peakflow provides real-time views of network activity enabling organizations to instantly protect against phishing, botnets, DDoS attacks, worms, insider misuse, and traffic and routing instability, as well as segment and harden networks from future threats. Arbor Peakflow successfully prevents costly downtime, network cleanup, and loss of customer confidence. Arbor Networks is headquartered in Lexington, MA, with a research and development office in Ann Arbor, MI and overseas headquarters in London and Beijing. For more information, go to www.arbornetworks.com.

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