DDoS-GUARD vs. NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS Protection

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
DDoS-GUARD
Score 9.0 out of 10
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A comprehensive DDoS protection service for websites and servers CDN and traffic optimization features. The company's own geo-distributed DDoS mitigation network with nodes in the United States, Hong Kong, Russia, Kazakhstan, and the Netherlands makes it possible to process large amounts of traffic and protect customer sites and servers. DDoS Protection for ISP and DC Network BGP L3-7 protection. White label. API. Self-developed solutions. 24/7/365 support.…N/A
NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS Protection
Score 8.0 out of 10
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NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS Protection security software offers protection across multiple layers of the OSI model. It provides security measures for Layer 2 (Data Link layer) through Layer 7 (Application layer), ensuring complete protection for network infrastructure.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup Fee$15 per domainNo setup fee
Additional DetailsPrices for Protected Hosting, Protected VDS, Protected Dedicated Servers are also available on website. Prices for carrier-grade services (IP Transit and Network Protection) are set up individually (please contact our Sales team).
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User Ratings
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9.0
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Usability
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
DDoS-GUARD
It is well suited for handling predictable surges (100,000 daily requests), defending against volumetric attacks and Quick Setup for new client onboarding with amazing DNS Integration. It is probably less effective or I would say there is scope for improvement against sophisticated multi-vector attacks and direct-to-origin threats bypassing its cloud protection when IPs are exposed.
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NETSCOUT
Arbor has the propensity to deal with even the larger firms. I have been using it for a year span and I don’t have any such complaint which is affecting us in a bad way. I can recommend this to all the companies who want to have a good network behavior analysis and to monitor the problems if there is any chance of it to occur and which has the potential to affect the whole working environment of the company.
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Pros
DDoS-GUARD
  • Real-Time Traffic Filtering
  • Integration
  • Responsive Support
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NETSCOUT
  • Arbor's layer 7 countermeasures are very good out of the box, but it is very easy to reconfigure values and see the impact in real-time.
  • Peakflow SP provides fairly detailed traffic analysis and breakdown for top-N data such as top talkers, top ASNs, top ports and so on. They offer "SP Insight" as a product to build in more powerful reporting on the already-collected metrics with an interface very similar to Kibana or one of its many forks. We are not licensed for that so I can't speak to its capabilities.
  • Arbor allows for a good amount of automation. Fast flood detection ensures that if pre-determined thresholds are quickly exceeded, preconfigured mitigations can be started or in the event of an extremely large volumetric attack you can trigger an Arbor Cloud (sold separately) mitigation or a remotely-triggered blackhole announcement to drop traffic to the attacked destination IP address(es) upstream.
  • ATAC (Arbor support) is very helpful. The level of support our organization maintains covers ATAC performing all update functions to all Arbor appliances - SP and TMS.
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Cons
DDoS-GUARD
  • Detailed post-attack analytics
  • Slow Response During Edge Cases
  • More intuitive API dashboard
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NETSCOUT
  • Arbor is a highly expensive company. this was the major reason behind not going for the Arbor sightline in the first place. Although its features are good but the cost is unjustifiable.
  • The implementation and the understanding of this tool are full of complexity and perplexity.
  • I am looking forward to having a new update on it. They used to update their versions quite frequently but it's been a long time they haven’t updated or maybe it is not in their priority lists right now.
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Usability
DDoS-GUARD
The setup is straightforward. DNS rerouting and a clear client area wizard protect our 30+ client sites fast considering our small team. The real-time dashboard simplifies monitoring 100,000 daily requests, and 24/7 support resolves issues like rate-limit tweaks. It could be a 10/10 if API dashboard is more intuitive and if reporting could be more granular
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NETSCOUT
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Alternatives Considered
DDoS-GUARD
We chose DDoS-GUARD for its cost-effective and flexible plans. This software had the ability to meet our requirements. That is to scale with our 30+ client websites and 100,000 daily requests. The Integration also seemed better than AWS ecosystems and simpler API management. This aligned better with our multi-platform needs and budget.
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NETSCOUT
We evaluated Corero and a number of external scrubbing services. In the POC, we found Corero's mitigation capabilities to extremely limited beyond blocking common traffic types at preconfigured rates. It's not impossible to configure custom mitigation methods and countermeasures, but it requires a deep understanding of BPF and bytecode, where Arbor is checkboxes, radio buttons, and dialog buttons that all sit next to a graph showing traffic dropped and permitted by the current settings. I'm not going to enumerate each of the cloud services evaluated because the decision came down to the same reasoning. The amount of traffic we receive is enough that it would be prohibitively expensive for our use case.
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Return on Investment
DDoS-GUARD
  • It has ensured 99.9% uptime for 30+ client websites of ours during attacks. DDoS-GUARD has cut churn by 15%, retaining significant money in annual contracts. Our clients cite reliability as a key reason for renewals.
  • Outsourcing DDoS mitigation to DDoS-GUARD saves us $50,000 yearly versus building an in-house solution. This helps and frees our team to focus on high-value app development and boosts our billable hours.
  • With quick setup, we have been able to win 5 new contracts worth $75,000 annually and strengthened our position as a Cybersecurity Managed Services IT provider.
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NETSCOUT
  • Arbor is good in empower us to monitor the issues in the network.
  • We can get better traffic analytics and reports are quite detailed.
  • The price is quite high which makes it a little hard choice for us.
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