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NETSCOUT’s Cyber Threat Horizon Offers Free Real-Time Visibility and Analysis of DDoS Attacks
New online portal provides advanced insights into global DDoS attack activity backed by data and insights from Arbor ATLAS Supports need to keep IT networks
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nNew online portal provides advanced insights into global DDoS attack activity backed by data and insights from Arbor ATLAS\n\n\nSupports need to keep IT networks highly available for increasingly important work-at-home access\n\n WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nNETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC., (NASDAQ:NTCT), a leading provider of service assurance, security, and business analytics, today announced the public availability of Cyber Threat Horizon, a free threat intelligence portal that offers network and security operators greater visibility into Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks in real-time. Cyber Threat Horizon collects, analyzes, prioritizes, and disseminates data on past and emerging DDoS threats across the internet. This macro view gives users contextual awareness of the DDoS attacks that could impact their organization and allows them to gain unique insights into DDoS attack trends to provide the situational awareness they need to assess risk and prepare for cyberattacks.\n\n\nAs a result of the current COVID-19 outbreak, organizations around the globe are instituting work/learn from home policies on a massive scale. Now more than ever, critical infrastructure such as internet circuits, routers, VPN gateways, and firewalls must remain available to ensure remote access to internal resources and services. DDoS attacks pose a significant threat to the availability of this critical infrastructure and services. Cyber Threat Horizon gives organizations the ability to gain situational awareness of DDoS attacks and put protection in place before remote access is impacted.\n\n\n“Our new reality has placed increased demands on network security and IT administrators to ensure remote workers have access to the applications and information they need to be as efficient and productive as possible,” stated John Grady, cybersecurity analyst at The Enterprise Strategy Group. “With bad actors escalating their cyberattacks on our IT infrastructure, global enterprises and service providers should consider not only solutions providing strong mitigation capabilities, but tools that deliver the critical insights necessary to prevent DDoS attacks before they happen.”\n\n\nBacked by the Arbor Active Threat Level Analysis System (ATLAS™), which sees approximately one-third of the world’s internet traffic, Cyber Threat Horizon collects data fr...