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Ixia’s ThreatARMOR Improves Security Tool Efficiency of Large-Scale Enterprise Data Centers at 10Gb Network Speeds
Turn-key threat intelligence gateway filters traffic from malicious IP addresses at line speed, boosting efficiency and performance of security and visibility tools
According to a recent report by the
“The reality today is that exfiltration tools have become powerful enough that even small delays in detection can lead to catastrophic breach losses,” said
ThreatARMOR filters traffic from known-bad IP addresses, hijacked IPs, and untrusted countries, greatly reducing the number of security alerts. By eliminating automated probes and scans, DDoS attacks from untrusted countries and hijacked IPs, and phishing and botnet connections, ThreatARMOR allows security teams to enable enhanced detection features on their existing security tools and focus on meaningful security alerts that indicate an active breach, also improving the efficacy of SIEM tools.
ThreatARMOR 10G enables customers with large networks and data centers to:
- Filter traffic from known bad IP addresses at full 10Gb line speeds – helping to stop malware downloads, network reconnaissance, and other exploits from those known bad addresses
- Identify and prevent infected internal devices from communicating to known botnet C&C servers
- Remove traffic by geography from entire countries that likely have no valid reason to access the network
- Filter unused and unassigned IP addresses, and hijacked domains often used in DDoS attacks
ThreatARMOR saves customers the time and cost of reviewing the flood of unnecessary notifications generated by their security systems, which can overwhelm security teams and risk critical alerts being missed. Enterprises spend approximately 21,000 hours per year on average dealing with false positive cyber security alerts, according to a Ponemon Institute report2 published in 2015.
“DDoS and malware attacks continue to grow in frequency and volume, which means enterprises are being overwhelmed by security alerts. This makes it almost impossible to identify the critical early signs of a targeted attack on an organization’s network,” said
Ixia’s professional-grade Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) Research Center has over a decade of experience providing threat intelligence to the world’s largest service providers and security equipment manufacturers for testing the efficacy of their cyber security products and systems.
Ixia’s ATI program develops the threat intelligence for ThreatARMOR and a detailed “Rap Sheet” that documents the malicious activity of each included IP address. Rap Sheets provide proof of malicious activity for all blocked sites, supported with on-screen evidence of the activity such as malware distribution or phishing, including date of the most recent confirmation and screen shots. With this clear reporting on blocking actions, customers can easily support IT compliance audits.
In addition to demonstrating ThreatARMOR 10G at the
Security Orchestration performs automated network, system, and application changes based on data driven security analysis, replacing slow, manual intervention and threat response with machine-speed decision making and response.
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