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Lagos event to showcase solution for growing cyber crime in Nigeria


Lagos, 20 Jan 2016

Distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks are a reality and the African continent has seen an immense increase in these types of cyber incidents. Nigeria has been one of the worst-hit countries during the past couple of months.

For this reason, Arbor Networks, together with its value added distributor, Networks Unlimited, are partnering with the leading ICT companies in Nigeria in order to provide a skilled service to the end-customers in the region.

Staging an event at the end of January 2016 at the InterContinental hotel in Lagos, Arbor Networks and Networks Unlimited will demonstrate how the Arbor solution can assist companies in mitigating DDOS attacks.

"There is a huge requirement for skilled and capable vendors to provide East and West African companies with leading security solutions that can assist in the mitigation, detection and identification of such attacks. Arbor Networks, as the worldwide leader and top supplier of DDOS mitigation appliances, has the experience and technology to assist the carrier, enterprise and mobile market segments by combating and eliminating these detrimental attacks," says Bryan Hamman, territory manager for sub-Saharan Africa at Arbor Networks.

He continues, "Encapsulating 15 years of experience in delivering security as well as network visibility solutions and products, Arbor Networks today secures the networks of the world's largest enterprise against advanced threats. Nigeria has become one of Arbor's main focus regions on the African continent and, as such, a strong emphasis has been placed on growing Arbor Networks as a brand and product in the region."

Highlights at the event will be illustrating how Arbor's hybrid DDOS solutions are today's best practice solutions for both on premises and the cloud. Powered by the world's most widely deployed DDOS protection technology, Arbor Cloud delivers a unique, integrated combination of on-premises and cloud-based mitigation for protection from the full spectrum of modern DDOS attacks.

"On-premises protection guards against state-exhausting attacks aimed at the security infrastructure of the enterprise. It also helps prevent stealthy attacks that bypass firewalls and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and target business-critical applications. Meanwhile, our global, multi-terabit, on-demand traffic scrubbing service defends against volumetric DDOS attacks that are too large to be mitigated on-premises. It's all supported by Arbor's 24x7 Security Operations Center, which is staffed by our DDOS and security experts. Arbor Cloud brings the availability of your network, services and applications back under your control," explains Hamman.

Delegates will also be introduced to Arbor's new product release, Advanced Threat, a solution that leverages integrated Netflow and Packet Capture technology for network-wide situational awareness, broad and deep traffic visibility and security intelligence, which transforms threat detection and incident response through real-time and historical insights, through real-life visualisation and forensics. "Arbor's Security Analytics protect the most critical assets from advanced threats that are within networks," adds Hamman.

To be part of Arbor Networks and Networks Unlimited educational breakfast event and learn more about DDOS attacks and how Arbor Network's solutions and products can assist in mitigating and detecting these types of attacks, please contact Chantel Hamman at (+27) 82 781 9367.

To register, click here.

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Arbor Networks

Arbor Networks helps secure the world's largest enterprise and service provider networks from DDOS attacks and advanced threats. Arbor is the world's leading provider of DDOS protection in the enterprise, carrier and mobile market segments, according to Infonetics Research. Arbor's advanced threat solutions deliver complete network visibility through a combination of packet capture and NetFlow technology, enabling the rapid detection and mitigation of malware and malicious insiders. Arbor also delivers market leading analytics for dynamic incident response, historical analysis, visualisation and forensics. Arbor strives to be a "force multiplier," making network and security teams the experts. Its goal is to provide a richer picture into networks and more security context - so customers can solve problems faster and reduce the risk to their business.

To learn more about Arbor products and services, please visit our Web site at arbornetworks.com. Arbor's research, analysis and insight, together with data from the ATLAS global threat intelligence system, can be found at the ATLAS Threat Portal.

Networks Unlimited

Networks Unlimited is a value-added distributor, offering the best and latest solutions within the converged technology, data centre, networking, and security landscapes. The company distributes best-of-breed products, including Arbor Networks, Arista, Aruba Networks, CensorNet, Centrify, Fortinet, F5, ProLabs, Riverbed, RSA, SimpliVity and Tintri. The product portfolio provides solutions from the edge to the data centre, and addresses key areas such as cloud networking and integration, WAN optimisation, application performance management, application delivery networking, WiFi-, mobile- and networking security, load balancing, data centre in-a-box, and storage for virtual machines.

Since its formation in 1994, Networks Unlimited has continually adapted to today's progressively competitive and evolving marketplace, and has reaped the benefits by being a leading value-added distributor (VAD) within the Sub-Saharan Africa market.

www.nu.co.za

Editorial contacts

Lynne McCarthy
Networks Unlimited
(+27) 011 202 8400
lynne@nu.co.za