Arbor Networks to Speak on Managed Security Services at TelecomNEXT.
WHO Robert Malan, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Arbor
Networks
WHEN Monday, March 20, 2006
1:40 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. (PST)
WHERE TelecomNEXT
Room: Breakers C
Mandalay Bay Convention Center
Las Vegas, Nevada
WHAT Malan will present in the TelecomNEXT Papers track focused on
Network Security. In his presentation, "The Managed Security
Services Boom," Malan will discuss:
-- How managed services open up additional revenue doors for
service providers;
-- How managed services answer the increasing demands enterprises
are placing on their service providers for enhanced services;
-- The increasingly volatile security landscape and the effect on
service providers to offer managed security services; and
-- How managed security services can offer network-based
offerings to ensure enterprise customers will receive clean
bandwidth that is free of flooding denial of service (DoS)
attacks, worm traffic and infected hosts.
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 An approach to intrusion detection that establishes a baseline model of behavior for users and components in a computer system or network. Deviations from the baseline cause alerts that direct the attention of human operators to the anomalies. See IDS and anomaly. and threat mitigation MITIGATION. To make less rigorous or penal. 2. Crimes are frequently committed under circumstances which are not justifiable nor excusable, yet they show that the offender has been greatly tempted; as, for example, when a starving man steals bread to satisfy . Peakflow provides real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. views of network activity, enabling organizations to instantly protect against worms Worms (vôrms), city (1994 pop. 79,155), Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany, on the Rhine River. It is an industrial city and a leading wine trade center. , DDoS attacks, insider misuse, and traffic and routing instability as well as segment and harden hard·en v. hard·ened, hard·en·ing, hard·ens v.tr. 1. To make hard or harder. 2. To enable to withstand physical or mental hardship. 3. networks from future threats. Peakflow successfully prevents costly downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. , network cleanup, and loss of customer confidence. Arbor is headquartered in Lexington, MA, with a research and development office in Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, city (1990 pop. 109,592), seat of Washtenaw co., S Mich., on the Huron River; inc. 1851. It is a research and educational center, with a large number of government and industrial research and development firms, many in high-technology fields such as , MI and overseas headquarters in London and Beijing. ABOUT THE TELECOMNEXT The USTA's annual TelecomNEXT is a successor event to its Telecomm conference, as well as to Supercomm, which USTA USTA United States Tennis Association USTA United States Telecom Association USTA United States Trotting Association USTA United States Telephone Association USTA United States Twirling Association USTA United States Trademark Association co-produced with the Telephone Industry Association. TelecommNEXT focuses on showcasing services, technologies and products in the integrated communications market. The event addresses such topics as current legislative and regulatory developments, technological advancements, and competitive products and markets. The 2006 theme is "Where the Business and Technology of Communications and Entertainment Meet." |
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