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RL
Sr. Security Engineer at Rackspace

We had Cisco products. We switched because the usability was just too complex. With Cisco, we were able to adjust many things, but there were way too many buttons to push, to help you out. Arbor gives you a great balance between simplicity and surgical precision that I haven't been able to find in other products.

I do test other DDoS products. And one of the things that I have found is that there's a lot of what I call "black magic" software, where you click on a button or switch and it automatically does what you want it to do, but you really have no understanding of what it's doing on the back-end. With Arbor, and being in engineering, you have a great idea of what's going on and how it's being utilized, which makes troubleshooting issues during mitigations a lot easier. If you know exactly what a countermeasure is doing, then you're able to precisely say if it's an issue with your system or if it's further down the stream on another device, a firewall or a load balancer, etc.

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EN
Product Manager, MSx Security Services at TPx Communications

We didn't have a solution before Arbor, but there was a period of time where we tried another solution. We did not find that solution to be adequate.

With Arbor, when we see DDoS attacks, it is fully mitigating the attacks. We've dealt with other ones where we didn't necessarily see that. The detection is very good. It's also very simple to use. Arbor is a single pane of glass, whereas with other solutions you might have a detection pane of glass and then have to go to a separate interface to deal with the mitigation. That single pane of glass makes it much simpler.

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LM
Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We had Check Point and Radware solutions. Gartner Quadrant ratings were one of the key factors for going for this solution.

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Arbor DDoS
March 2024
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UK
Team Lead for DDoS Protection at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

This is our first DDoS solution.

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YI
Regional Technical Manager at HTBS

I have previously used Fortinet DDoS.

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ED
Network Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

I did not use other solutions. 

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RM
Network Security Architecture at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

We did not have a previous solution.

The decision to use Arbor was based on their track record and capabilities - they stood out very well.

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AG
Security Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees

We used Cisco Guard but Cisco no longer sells that solution. It was a very complex solution and our customer satisfaction was very low. We searched for a new solution and we liked Arbor.

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

We found what we wanted in Arbor DDoS. It met our expectations, as IT users of different types of complex environments. It fit our needs. After we did the PoC, we found that this product is good. It was scalable and stable.

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

No, we were just manually blackholing at level three, an upper level. We were not using any specific DDoS solutions like Arbor.

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MN
Security Consultant with 51-200 employees

I used Juniper and F5, but F5 is not an on-premise solution. They have multiple protections but it's not a full-blown solution. We still offer F5.

When I joined this company I found that they work with Arbor. They told me there's something called Arbor and I had to do a deployment and start working with it.

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it_user667689 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security Manager at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

We were not using any other solution before.

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RN
Cloud Security Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

My former company didn't have a previous solution. The company was new in Mexico and there were many considerations regarding government involvement in the industry, so security considerations were not there at that time.

Arbor is the official solution for my former company, worldwide. Also, Arbor was sold as OEM as part of Cisco, and Cisco has a very strong position in that company. Both of those facts helped push the Arbor solution there.

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it_user663393 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Not applicable.

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it_user664614 - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Analyst at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

We were using black-hole mitigation. We switched from that technique because we were dropping all the traffic of the attacked link, rather than vulnerable traffic; there were many more loopholes.

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LM
Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did not have a previous solution.

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it_user700122 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Officer at a comms service provider

I did not use a different solution prior to Arbor DDoS.

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Buyer's Guide
Arbor DDoS
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Arbor DDoS. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.