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Arbor DDoS pros and cons

Vendor: NETSCOUT

4.4 out of 5

56 reviews
95% willing to recommend

Pros & Cons summary

Arbor DDoS offers advanced predefined filters and scalable features for large organizations, enhanced by strong technical support and AI capabilities. Its precise traffic categorization and analytics yield high ROI. However, it faces challenges with complex pricing, integration, and regional support, while needing improvements in synchronization, reporting, and AI automation. Enhancements in real-time visibility and machine learning are essential to minimize false positives and improve post-attack insights.

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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

Cyber Security Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

May 13, 2017

Predefined filters/techniques to easily stop the attacks and start mitigation.

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Information Security Officer at a comms service provider

Jul 10, 2017

Arbor has the ability to learn and self-create the appropriate profile for each customer.

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Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Feb 14, 2018

With real-time packet capture features, you can easily and quickly response.

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HV

Network Consultant at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Jun 14, 2018

We are able to respond quickly and prevent DDoS attacks.

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Manager IP Services at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Dec 2, 2018

Arbor has a global ranking in reliability and credibility. They are very unique and can respond to a very wide scope of threats from their global deployment.

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AM

Technical Lead - DEVSECOPS with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 3, 2019

We can reduce the bandwidth to minimize the attack level. If we see more than 2.5 GBs we drop it directly.

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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.

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TabbrezBalbbale

Security Advisor at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Dec 19, 2018

Valuable features include simple and centralized management of user access and capabilities, as well as Web 2.0 interactive attack alerting, traffic visualization, and mitigation service control.

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AF

Security Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Dec 19, 2018

There are a number of valuable features in this product, like Cloud Signaling and Threat Intelligence feeds.

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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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Arbor DDoS Cons review quotes

Cyber Security Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

May 13, 2017

Auto mitigation is a feature provided when DDoS is observed on any of link/customer (configured under auto mitigation). It automatically starts mitigation with default filters. In default filter mode, there could be an impact on the customer’s link,

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Information Security Officer at a comms service provider

Jul 10, 2017

A small improvement could be a better reporting system.

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Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Feb 14, 2018

Arbor Pravail APS devices do not sync features or config the backup enough. This needs to be improved.

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HV

Network Consultant at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Jun 14, 2018

There is some room for AI to take place.

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Manager IP Services at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

Dec 2, 2018

I think the diversity of protection is extremely limited. It must be expanded in future upgrades and versions.

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AM

Technical Lead - DEVSECOPS with 1,001-5,000 employees

May 3, 2019

If we want to see live traffic, we can see do so. But once an attack that lasts for five minutes is done, the data is no longer there. It would be an improvement if we could see recent traffic in the dashboard. We can check and download live traffic, but a past attack, with all the details, such as why it happened and how to mitigate and prevent such future attacks, would be helpful to see.

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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.

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TabbrezBalbbale

Security Advisor at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Dec 19, 2018

The following areas need improvement: opening and tracking support tickets, online support resources, software upgrades/updates and replacement media, and event management guidelines.

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AF

Security Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Dec 19, 2018

Sometimes it blocks legitimate traffic. If a legitimate user is trying to access the server continuously, the product suspects that this is a DoS traffic file. That is a case where it needs to improve. It needs machine-learning.

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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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