Arbor DDoS Reviews

I worked on Arbor DDoS for over 10 years. I have been working with Arbor DDoS as a customer, and I support my colleagues at the company. BH Telecom, a customer in Bosnia and Herzegovina, has that platform that protects from DDoS attacks. That is the primary role of the Arbor DDoS appliance.

I use Arbor DDoS to protect against DDoS attacks. BH Telecom utilizes it for DDoS attacks. That is the primary role of the Arbor DDoS platform.

Some mitigation helps protect big companies such as Telecom from DDoS attacks. DDoS attacks are very common in telecommunication companies. That is the main reason I use Arbor DDoS and have used it for over 10 years. It is simple but it is the best. It is simple when I explain it all, but that is a significant role for the telecom operator protecting against DDoS attacks because I have witnessed many DDoS attacks, specifically volumetric attacks. That is an attack over 10 gigabit per second, and if an attack enters the telecommunication network, that will be a disaster for their customer, their services, and so on.

Because I am a lead engineer in the company, my advice is for a product that is the best. Because this Arbor DDoS product is the best, I do not need to spend time supporting it. I want the best product to sell to my customers, and I think in that area, Arbor DDoS is the best in the area they operate. My recommendation is similar to how I propose customers buy Cisco, I also propose they buy Arbor DDoS.

Two primary features of Arbor DDoS are black hole and mitigation. Black hole can block some IP addresses that are under attack or mitigate some host addresses that are under attack. That is the main role that we use for Arbor DDoS.

Traffic analysis in Arbor DDoS uses the NetFlow protocol to collect information for the devices, and that provides statistics about the protocol, what is used of the link throughput, capacity, and so on. That is just for monitoring and the feature that we use, mitigation or black hole.

They protect big companies such as Telecom from DDoS attacks. DDoS attacks are very common in telecommunications companies. That is the main reason I use Arbor DDoS and have used it for over 10 years. It is simple but it is the best. It is simple when I explain it all, but that is a significant role for the telecom operator protecting against DDoS attacks because I have witnessed many DDoS attacks, specifically volumetric attacks. That is an attack over 10 gigabit per second, and if an attack enters the telecommunication network, that will be a disaster for their customer, their services, and so on.

I have many customers who have published applications, and they are receiving many requests which can be DDoS attacks, so the use case is to stop the DDoS attacks.

The most valuable feature of Arbor DDoS is that it is based in most of the ISPs all over the world, and Egyptian ISPs are one of them. If a customer who is getting internet connectivity from one of the ISPs has an Arbor at the end, it will be integrated with the ISP Arbor. It's some sort of closing all the cycle with Arbor DDoS, from the ISP sides and from your side as a customer.

Traffic analysis with Arbor DDoS is very good; it is brilliant. They act in a different way compared to others, and the vendor support is very good.

The main benefits Arbor DDoS provides to users include stopping DDoS attacks, which is the biggest nightmare for all customers.

We are using Radware DDoS. We still use Radware DDoS, and I can confirm we work with this one; however, we are not using Arbor DDoS. We especially use Arbor DDoS for protection against DDoS attacks. Unfortunately, during the last three years, we have seen extremely increased DDoS attacks from the Russian side.

It has a really useful customer interface and good support from the company. 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. It has a library of different attacks around the world, which is updated in high quality, approximately once a week or once a month.

We have many updates for the library of different attacks, and they have artificial intelligence that automatically learns the process during different attacks.

The advanced threat intelligence feature is helpful as it helps to identify and mitigate threats. One of the advantages we can mention is the threat intelligence feature.

The integrations in Arbor DDoS with different products are good. It is especially easy to integrate with other products, particularly for some monitoring systems or other systems.

We are using Arbor DDoS for our DDoS platform at A1 Bulgaria. We provide customers with this service.

The platform offers quick mitigation of attacks because Arbor DDoS uses BGP Flowspec, enabling very quick mitigation. The time between detecting an attack and beginning to mitigate it is very short. Additionally, the ATLAS intelligence feeds provide a reputation for IP addresses participating in botnets, which is a significant feature. We can also conduct in-line mitigation and capture traffic in near-real-time, even when there's no alert for slow-rate attacks. If there is an attack, we can mitigate right away for the customer.

The solution was intended for the big clients of Telefonica to clean their internet pipe. We deployed the service to clean the pipe. In some clients' data centers, we implemented a solution that detects and mitigates attacks using Arbor DDoS, our data center solution.

For me, the most valuable feature was the ability to detect attacks within two seconds and gain visibility of all the traffic. Additionally, Arbor DDoS helps with managing the attackers in this area to avoid volumetric attacks, especially when attackers attempt to shut down some clients' sites.

In my role as a partner of Arbor, I support customers and assist with using Arbor DDoS. I've been involved with it for approximately two years. The primary use cases we encounter include addressing issues related to cloud signaling not connecting and dealing with IP alerts that may indicate malicious activity or false positives.

The feature I find most valuable is the packet capture, which beautifully shows the communication between the client and the server, identifying potential malicious activity. The cloud signaling adjustment is also very valuable as it enables global scrubbing of your links during an attack. Additionally, Arbor DDoS helps scrutinize and filter traffic, improving security measures.

Arbor DDoS is designed for enterprises and is not suitable for small businesses that have only one to ten public IP addresses. Some next-generation firewalls already include this protection.

It has been cost-effective for operation times. Our telecom and ISP customers were spending a lot of time on investigation and root cause analysis of service disruptions. Arbor helps mitigate and protect their networks from the latest protection perspectives.

Our customers usually come from the financial sector, manufacturing, and energy sectors, such as gasoline companies and solar energy firms. We also work with e-commerce platforms and companies that publish web services. These clients need high availability for their services, so we provide them with the best protection through Arbor DDoS.

We use almost all the features of Arbor DDoS, but it really depends on the customer’s requirements, so I can’t specify exactly which features we use. However, many customers appreciate the basic DDoS protection, especially those without specific protection needs. For example, financial companies benefit from the cloud DDoS protection. It’s a straightforward solution that effectively meets their needs.