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PROS

Arbor DDoS features advanced predefined filters and self-learning capabilities to efficiently stop and mitigate attacks.
The platform's scalability suits large deployments for big organizations and service providers.
Technical support and AI capabilities enhance Arbor DDoS's effectiveness in mitigating DDoS attacks, with premium quality support mentioned frequently.
Customers benefit from the precise traffic categorization and comprehensive control features that Arbor DDoS provides.
Arbor DDoS's analytics and attack mitigation capabilities are highly valued, contributing to a strong return on investment for internet-dependent companies.

CONS

Arbor DDoS requires improvements in synchronization features and backup configurations of its devices.
There is a need for better reporting systems and an enhancement in real-time traffic visibility post-attack.
Pricing model complexity and integration with third-party technologies present challenges for Arbor DDoS users.
Improved AI and automation capabilities are necessary, as is better machine learning to reduce false positives.
The regional support in several areas, including Africa and Argentina, needs significant improvement, particularly in speed and skill for dealing with attacks.
 

Arbor DDoS Pros review quotes

RL
Sr. Security Engineer at Rackspace
Aug 10, 2020
We use it not only for DDoS detection and protection, but we also use it for traffic analysis and capacity planning as well. We've also been able to extend the use of it to other security measures within our company, the front-line defense, not only for DDoS, but for any kind of scanning malware that may be picked up. It's also used for outbound attacks, which has helped us mitigate those and lower our bandwidth costs...
TP
General Manager at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
Feb 8, 2021
We have taken on the Arbor Cloud subscription, which is really useful because you secure yourself for anything beyond your current mitigation capacity. This is a really good feature of Arbor that is available.
UK
Team Lead for DDoS Protection at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Dec 19, 2018
Our customers are very happy when we provide them with the interface... They can check how many attacks they have faced and how many attacks have been blocked.
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Security1a8a - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant with 51-200 employees
Dec 10, 2018
It's just one dashboard with mitigation. You decide which mitigation you want and at what threshold to do this or that. Its operation is pretty simple. It's easy.
SZ
Team Lead Network Engineer at Artco Group d.o.o Sarajevo
May 29, 2025
Because this Arbor DDoS product is the best, I do not need to spend time supporting it.
MR
Sr. Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 10, 2021
The most valuable features include the traffic categorization and control of the traffic. The filtering of the traffic is very precise. When you want to stop some traffic, you precisely stop that traffic.
DO
CTO at UkrNet
Jun 26, 2025
Inside this product, there are many different configurations for protection, and we have one of the best experiences with it, specifically with the Atlas product.
Waseem Alkhawaja - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Specialist at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 15, 2023
The quality of the technical support provided by Arbor DDoS is premium.
it_user1418178 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Jan 17, 2021
There were huge attacks in October, around 62 attacks at 30 gigabits per second, at one of our banks. We used Arbor DDoS to mitigate these attacks, and it performed great.
DejanBlagojevic - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at Exclusive-networks
Nov 25, 2022
Companies that live from their presence on the internet will get a very high return on investment from Arbor.
 

Arbor DDoS Cons review quotes

RL
Sr. Security Engineer at Rackspace
Aug 10, 2020
I would also like more visibility into their bad actor feeds, their fingerprint feeds. We try to be good stewards of the internet, so if there are attacks, or bad actors within our networks, if there were an easier way for us to find them, we could stop them from doing their malicious activity, and at the same time save money.
TP
General Manager at Vodafone Idea Ltd.
Feb 8, 2021
There is always room for improvement for any product or service. If we can bring in more agility when deploying services, that is definitely a scope which we can work towards. Nowadays, everything is being offered as a service model. It is not that we have to deploy the physical hardware, many things move up to the cloud, or even can be delivered in the VNS form in the customer's environment as well. So, in that space, if we can add more features to make it more seamless for customers to use and make it available through some marketplace, not only at the hyperscalers, but also for any on-prem deployment, that definitely would be a big plus.
UK
Team Lead for DDoS Protection at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Dec 19, 2018
Because we had some routers that were somewhat old, they were not integrated with Arbor. They did not support the NetFlow version that Arbor was running. That was a challenge. We had to upgrade the routers. Some backward-compatibility would be helpful.
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Security1a8a - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Consultant with 51-200 employees
Dec 10, 2018
For troubleshooting problems, it's not so intuitive. It's not straightforward. This is the core of their kernel, so they need to improve it a little bit... In F5 I have full control of everything.
SZ
Team Lead Network Engineer at Artco Group d.o.o Sarajevo
May 29, 2025
The prices for Arbor DDoS are expensive. The licensing is subscription-based.
MR
Sr. Manager at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 10, 2021
On the application layer, they could have a better distributed traffic flow. They could improve that a bit. For network data it is very effective, but the application layer can be improved.
DO
CTO at UkrNet
Jun 26, 2025
Arbor DDoS has some difficult pricing rules. For many different small features, we have to pay additional fees for every small feature.
Waseem Alkhawaja - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Specialist at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 15, 2023
With Arbor DDoS, its integration issues with other technologies or other vendors' technologies is an area of concern that could be improved.
it_user1418178 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Jan 17, 2021
We need a SaaS model for the solution.
DejanBlagojevic - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Engineer at Exclusive-networks
Nov 25, 2022
Arbor's SSL decryption is confusing and needs external cards to be installed in the devices. This is not the best solution from an architectural point of view for protecting HTTPS and every other protocol that is SSL encrypted.