Arbor Networks Protects Enterprises with Active Threat Feed; Peakflow X is first Internal IPS to proactively address phishing, worms and botnets through Behavioral Fingerprints

Business Wire, June 6, 2005

LEXINGTON, Mass. -- Arbor Networks(R), a leader in network security, today announced the Active Threat Feed Security Service for its Peakflow(R) X enterprise security platform. Arbor's Active Threat Feed (ATF) is the first 24x7 service that delivers behavioral fingerprints of emerging worldwide threats directly to enterprise security teams. Fueled by Arbor's newly-formed Security Response Team, the Active Threat Feed safeguards internal enterprise networks against phishing, worms, botnets and other emerging threats before they strike and harm critical business operations.

Arbor's Security Response Team, run by Arbor's Principal Security Architect Dug Song, a widely recognized security researcher, identifies emerging threats around the clock from a variety of sources. Leveraging Arbor's global security presence and proprietary global monitoring infrastructure, the Arbor Security Response Team identifies the most critical and potentially destructive new attacks. As threats are identified, Arbor generates a behavioral fingerprint and automatically updates Peakflow X to protect the enterprise's network.

By providing enterprises with behavioral descriptions or cyber "fingerprints" of the latest emerging threats, administrators can actively protect and harden their internal networks before attacks cause millions of dollars in lost revenue and downtime. ATF builds on Peakflow X's behavioral anomaly detection, with its unmatched ability to identify potential attacks and prevent insider misuse.

Unlike signature-based systems that look for bad packets or patterns that make them prone to false positives, behavioral fingerprints are more advanced in their ability to identify abnormal groups of behaviors. Using these behavioral signatures ensures accurate detection and mitigation of increasingly complex attacks that specifically target internal networks.

"By giving enterprises global insight into the latest emerging threats, administrators can proactively protect internal networks before resources are compromised," said Dr. Rob Malan, co-founder and CTO of Arbor Networks. "The Arbor Security Response Team has unique visibility into worldwide threats through our many partnerships with service providers. We're able to gather critical and exhaustive information from these partnerships and our internal research systems to protect our enterprise customers."

Some of the largest enterprises in the world are using Peakflow X to defend their networks from worms and insider misuse; achieve regulatory compliance based on HIPAA and Sarbanes Oxley; and gain unprecedented visibility across their internal networks. Today's announcement is a large step forward toward securing the inside of enterprise networks against internal misuse and abuse with a true internal IPS solution.

About Arbor Networks

Arbor Networks' Peakflow ensures the security and operational integrity of the world's most critical networks. Peakflow is the most broadly deployed network integrity platform in the world, with more than 100 customers that include leading service providers, MSOs in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, the U.S. Department of Defense, and Fortune 500 companies. Arbor's systems protect organizations from zero-day security threats such as DDoS attacks and worms, and operational vulnerabilities such as inefficient peering and routing instability. Arbor, a Check Point and Cisco partner, is headquartered in Lexington, MA, with a research and development office in Ann Arbor, MI and international headquarters in London and Beijing. For more information, go to www.arbornetworks.com.

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