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Arbor Networks Releases Global DDoS Attack Data for 1H 2016Arbor Networks Inc., the security division of NETSCOUT (NASDAQ: NTCT), today released global distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack data for the first six months of 2016, which shows a continuing escalation in both the size and frequency of attacks. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160719005262/en/ ATLAS 1H 2016 DDoS Data Infographic (Graphic: Business Wire) Arbor's data is gathered through the Active Threat Level Analysis System (ATLAS™), a collaborative partnership with more than 330 service provider customers who share anonymous traffic data with Arbor in order to deliver a comprehensive, aggregated view of global traffic and threats. ATLAS provides the data for the Digital Attack Map, a visualization of global attack traffic created in collaboration with Google (News - Alert) Ideas. ATLAS data has also been utilized recently in Cisco's Visual Networking Index Report and the Verizon Data Breach Incident Report.
GLOBAL DDOS ACTIVITY ATLAS has recorded:
As Arbor's Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT) recently documented, large DDoS attacks do not require the use of reflection amplification techniques. LizardStresser, an IoT botnet was used to launch attacks as large as 400Gbps targeting gaming sites worldwide, Brazilian financial institutions, internet service providers (ISPs) and government institutions. According to ASERT, the attack packets do not appear to be from spoofed source addresses - and no UDP (News - Alert)-based amplification protocols such as NTP or SNMP were used.
WHEN AVERAGE IS A PROBLEM
"The data demonstrates the need for hybrid, or multi-layer DDoS defense," said Darren Anstee, Arbor Networks (News - Alert) chief security technologist. "High bandwidth attacks can only be mitigated in the cloud, away from the intended target. However, despite massive growth in attack size at the top end, 80% of all attacks are still less than 1Gbps and 90% of attacks last less than one hour. On-premise protection provides the rapid reaction needed and is key against "low and slow" application-layer attacks, as well as state exhaustion attacks targeting infrastructure such as firewalls and IPS."
A TIME FOR REFLECTION As a result, in 1H 2016:
About Arbor Networks To learn more about Arbor products and services, please visit our website at arbornetworks.com or follow on Twitter (News - Alert) @ArborNetworks. Arbor's research, analysis and insight, together with data from the ATLAS global threat intelligence system, can be found at the ATLAS Threat Portal. Trademark Notice: Arbor Networks, the Arbor Networks logo and ATLAS are all trademarks of Arbor Networks, Inc. All other brands may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
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