NETSCOUT SYSTEMS has formally announced the launch of Adaptive DDoS Protection for Arbor Edge Defense (AED) to protect ISPs and enterprises from DNS water torture attacks.
The NETSCOUT DDoS Threat Intelligence Report reveals a 353% increase in Domain Name System (DNS) water torture attacks in the first six months of the year, overwhelming Authoritative DNS server resources and causing critical DNS services to fail.
“DNS water torture DDoS attacks have been around since 1997, yet many organisations still struggle to efficiently identify and mitigate them,” said John Grady, Principal at Enterprise Strategy Group. “These attacks send invalid requests to an Authoritative DNS server to slow it down and prevent legitimate requests from getting a response. Security teams cannot broadly block this traffic without potentially impacting valid requests due to the pervasiveness of DNS and can easily misdiagnose an attack as a performance issue. NETSCOUT’s Adaptive DDoS Protection auto-learns and adapts to changes in DNS server configuration, enabling AED to identify and mitigate these attacks.”
Adaptive DDoS Protection offers SOC teams a scalable, always-on, stateless packet processing solution that leverages unmatched visibility into more than 50% of all Internet traffic, real-time global cyberthreat intelligence, and decades of DDoS mitigation experience to automatically detect, adapt to and mitigate dynamic DDoS attacks.
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