We performed a comparison between Arbor DDoS and Prolexic based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cloudflare, NETSCOUT, Akamai and others in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection."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."
"Predefined filters/techniques to easily stop the attacks and start mitigation."
"Arbor DDoS's best feature is that we can put the certificates in, and it will look at layer seven and the encrypted traffic and do the required signaling."
"The technical support of Arbor DDoS is good."
"Arbor has the ability to learn and self-create the appropriate profile for each customer."
"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."
"The product allows us to check real-time progress, including latency and network activities."
"Analytics and its attack mitigation capabilities are valuable features of the solution."
"The solution does not have hardware or maintenance requirements and is very easy to scale."
"Implementation could be better."
"There is some room for AI to take place."
"On the main page there are alerts that we are unable to clear, even though the issue has been resolved."
"The upgrade process is mildly complex requiring treatment of the custom embedded OS separately from the application. The correlation of the underling OS to the application version can be easily missed."
"They should improve the reporting section and make it a little bit more detailed. I would like to have much better and more detailed reports."
"The support got worse after NETSCOUT acquired Arbor."
"The following areas need improvement: opening and tracking support tickets, online support resources, software upgrades/updates and replacement media, and event management guidelines."
"There is definitely room for improvement in third-party intelligence and integrations."
"The solution needs additional product options for small and medium enterprises."
Arbor DDoS is ranked 2nd in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 46 reviews while Prolexic is ranked 14th in Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) Protection with 4 reviews. Arbor DDoS is rated 8.6, while Prolexic is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Arbor DDoS writes "A critical solution for security, as it includes features that can automatically detect and prevent DDoS attacks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Prolexic writes "Scaling is very easy but more options are needed for enterprise environments". Arbor DDoS is most compared with Radware DefensePro, Cloudflare, Corero, Imperva DDoS and Kentik, whereas Prolexic is most compared with Cloudflare DDoS, Akamai App and API Protector, Cloudflare, AWS Shield and Azure DDoS Protection.
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There are two aspects for this query:
1) if the client has multiple applications that needs to be considered for DDos protection I will prefer to go with Prolexic, but
2) if the client has multiple network devices and those devices are front facing for being a security appliances then I recommend to go with Arbor network for DDos protection, because it has the capability to handle large size of packet length as well as the volume of the packets.
It's has been a great experienced for me by evaluating arbor networks which is very well when considering the protection of network devices (core, edge) having a virtualized environment and on site solutions .
For prolexic they have a wide verity of solution for applications that are custom develop or using a vendor based application. It's function
From experience between Akamai prolexic and Arbor to me is the mitigation techniques and integration to your network. Prolexic uses Netflow in order to detect an attack and then switch traffic to their solution in order to mitigate the attack. The most effective technique to mitigate attacks according to them is an always-on solution, meaning that you're routing your traffic to their network, which adds a hop and depending on your geographical location, can increase network latency.
Arbor solutions usually work with On-Premise Equipment which does mitigation of low and slow, layer 7 or low yield volumetric attacks. The advantage of Arbor solutions lies in a hybrid solution providing this on-prem technology and cloud scrubbing center capabilities for volumetric attacks which your network cannot handle.