Arbor Networks Unveils Powerful New Network Behavioral Analysis Technology That Delivers Increased Protection against Zero-Day Threats.

LEXINGTON, Mass. -- Peakflow X 3.6 Introduces Visualization and Threat Management Enhancements to Protect Network Assets and Ensure Business Continuity

Arbor Networks(R), a provider of core-to-core network security and operational performance for global business networks, today unveiled a host of new Network Behavioral Analysis (NBA) features with the introduction of Arbor Peakflow(R) X 3.6, the industry's most comprehensive and proven Anomaly Detection Solution.

Peakflow X 3.6 possesses a number of new features, including enhanced router and interface support, flow log storage for SANs environments, Risk Indexing, Management Visualization, Identity Tracking for Novell eDirectory and Active Threat Feed (ATF) usage. Peakflow X 3.6 technology extends Peakflow's security capabilities to protect against a wide range of known and unknown threats, including unauthorized access, data theft, worms, DDoS attacks, malware, phishing, botnets and network worms.

"Arbor Networks was the first network behavior analysis vendor to tie identity information with flow information in real-time," said Tina Stewart, vice president of marketing, Arbor Networks. "With the introduction of Peakflow X 3.6, we are extending this capability even further by allowing customers to have greater access to, and management of, identity information which enables more informed decisions for mitigating security threats."

The introduction of Arbor Peakflow X 3.6 underscores the company's commitment to anticipating the needs of global businesses by delivering better visibility into security and network operations' events with feature enhancements that provide actionable data, increase operational efficiencies and maximize security effectiveness, all while protecting customer confidence and investment.

Enhanced Features

Arbor Peakflow X 3.6 further expands network security and visualization capabilities to protect global business networks against a wide range of threats while maintaining customer trust. Key features and benefits include:

--Enhanced Router and Interface Support provides superior visibility and drill-down capabilities into applications that are running over routers, links and hosts. This enables customers to make intelligent decisions for mitigation during attacks or outages by identifying troublesome links, as well as providing powerful capacity planning value.

--Extensible Flow Log Storage supports the shipment of Controllers for integration into customer SAN environments so customers have the ability to receive raw flow storage. This further extends Arbor's ability to store data in accordance with the PCI Data Security Standard and other compliance requirements.

--Risk Index enables customers to automatically prioritize by host the most serious offenders on the network. This provides a rapid, detailed system for identifying, prioritizing and managing network threats so customers can quickly address the most critical security tasks. In addition, the risk index automatically degrades over time, resulting in no user action required.

--Management Reporting delivers powerful visualization with reports that cover alerted events and security assessments, providing a quick view into what Arbor Peakflow X has detected and the relative security situation on the network.

--Identity Tracking capabilities now supports Novell eDirectory in addition to Microsoft Active Directory as an Identity Source. With this unique Identity Tracking feature, customers now have a superior method to identify, track and alert on anomalous network behavior as it occurs -- by user name and location.

--Active Threat Feed (ATF) provides more control to the user by complementing automatic updates with a manual update approach. ATF has also been enhanced to enable users to modify ATF policies created by experts from Arbor's Security Engineering Response Team (ASERT) to further optimize these for their environment.

A recent Gartner report authored by Paul Proctor, Research Vice President, and titled, "Use Network Behavior Analysis for Better Visibility into Security and Operations Events, notes, "An experienced operator can get better visibility into a network to address walk-in worms, unauthorized protocols and suspicious connections." The report goes on to say, "NBA has shown value in assisting organizations with their enterprise network monitoring requirements."

Availability

Arbor Peakflow X 3.6 is immediately available.

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 contexts 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(R) delivers core-to-core network security and operational performance for global business networks. Arbor's solutions are based on the proven Arbor Peakflow(R) platform, intelligent technology for network-wide data collection, network behavioral analysis, anomaly detection, and threat mitigation. Arbor Peakflow provides real-time views of network activity enabling organizations to instantly protect against worms, DDoS attacks, 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 increases customer trust.

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