Overview
The Cost of Getting DDoS Protection Wrong
Launching a DDoS attack has never been easier. The tools are inexpensive, automated, and widely available. The impact, however, can be severe: degraded applications, disrupted revenue, and damaged trust in minutes.
Many organizations rely on upstream or ISP-based protections as a first line of defense. But upstream coverage alone lacks the visibility and precision needed in hybrid environments. Effective DDoS protection requires accurate, evidence-based mitigation that preserves availability, protects critical services, and enables confident, explainable decisions without slowing the business.
Today’s Challenges
DDoS Is Easier to Launch Than Ever
Low-cost, automated tools have lowered the barrier to entry for attackers. Campaigns can be initiated in minutes, often with little sophistication, but with immediate impact to applications and revenue.
Hybrid Environments Create Visibility Gaps
Traffic now moves across on-premises, edge, and public cloud infrastructure. Upstream-only protection lacks the on-path visibility required to make precise mitigation decisions everywhere traffic flows.
Precision Matters: Underblock or Overblock
Allow too much malicious traffic through and availability suffers. Block too aggressively and legitimate users are disrupted. Modern DDoS defense must strike the right balance without guesswork.
Automation Without Evidence Increases Risk
Mitigation decisions must be explainable and auditable. When automation isn’t grounded in packet-level evidence, organizations risk unintended outages, compliance challenges, and loss of operational control.
Our Approach
Purpose-Built for Precision Mitigation
NETSCOUT delivers purpose-built DDoS protection grounded in three principles: global truth, local evidence, and transparent automation.
- Global Truth
Internet-scale threat intelligence, derived from visibility into a significant portion of global traffic, enables early detection of emerging attack campaigns before they reach critical services. - Local Evidence
Packet-level Smart Data generated by our platform directly at the enforcement point at the network edge or public cloud enables precise, surgical mitigation decisions. - Transparent Automation
Every mitigation action is inspectable and tunable. Operators can automate with the confidence that every action is tied to concrete traffic evidence. Policies remain explainable, auditable, and under enterprise control.
By unifying global intelligence with on-path visibility and transparent automation, NETSCOUT enables fast, accurate mitigation across enterprise and service provider environments without sacrificing availability.
Trusted by industry leaders worldwide
Outcomes That Matter
Precision Protection Without Compromise
Maintain Availability Without Overblocking
Surgically mitigate attacks while preserving legitimate traffic and protecting application performance.
Reduce Operational and Business Risk
Minimize downtime, limit customer impact, and protect revenue during increasingly frequent attack campaigns.
Audit-Ready, Explainable Mitigation
Tie every automated action to packet-level evidence, enabling compliance reporting, executive confidence, and defensible decision-making.
Built for Enterprises and Service Providers
Enterprises
Maintain availability with auditable, evidence-based automation that reduces outage risk while keeping traffic control in the hands of IT teams, not upstream providers.
Service Providers
Ensure service availability with multi-tenant, carrier-grade protection that safeguards customer networks while enabling scalable, revenue-generating managed DDoS services.
Why NETSCOUT
Trusted to Stop DDoS Attacks for Over 25 Years
Global Truth at Internet Scale
Visibility into more than 50% of global internet traffic enables faster detection of emerging DDoS attack campaigns.
Proven and Trusted Protection
Trusted by 500+ service providers for over 25 years to protect critical networks, services, and customers worldwide.
Faster, Explainable Mitigation
Up to 80% faster response with automated, transparent mitigation decisions backed by packet-level evidence and audit-ready controls.
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FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
What makes NETSCOUT DDoS Protection ideal for service providers?
NETSCOUT’s DDoS protection offers Service Providers a proven, highly scalable solution that provides pervasive network visibility, automated DDoS attack detection, and scalable mitigation. Beyond protecting business critical network infrastructure and services, the solution is used by many of the world's service providers deliver managed DDoS protection services to their customers.
What makes NETSCOUT DDoS Protection ideal for Enterprises?
NETSCOUT offers a hybrid combination of DDoS attack protection solution that consists of on-premises and cloud-based mitigation that is continuously backed by global DDoS threat intelligence. This hybrid approach to DDoS protection is known as an industry best practice.
What types of DDoS attacks does NETSCOUT DDoS protection solution stop?
NETSCOUT DDoS protection stops all types of DDoS attacks, including DNS Water Torture, large-scale volumetric attacks, and distributed carpet bombing DDoS attacks.
Can the NETSCOUT solution protect my applications that are running in public clouds?
Yes. NETSCOUT offers a unified solution that can protect the availability of applications no matter where they run — on-prem, colo, or in a public cloud.
