Security and DDoS

As attacks proliferate, your network, applications, and customers are on the front lines. Networks carry the threats, but most legacy tools leave traffic data out of the fight. So how can you stop what your tools don’t show?

Get Kentik’s security-aware network traffic intelligence platform. With custom dashboards, real-time forensic drill-down, and unsurpassed anomaly detection, you’ll be able to identify, investigate, and prevent costly attacks.

DDoS Defense

Kentik includes the industry’s most accurate detection of DDoS attacks and other anomalies such as large-scale data exfiltration. Multi-level thresholds escalate threats as they develop, and built-in integrations enable automated triggers for internal or third-party mitigation.

Benefits:

Detect and defend up to 50% more attacks (TechValidate 2017 Customer Survey)

Enable turn-key, vendor-neutral protection Utilize a single platform for attack detection, mitigation, and investigation

Create differentiated “clean pipe” services

Differentiators	KENTIK	ARBOR NETWORKS
ADOPTION	50+ customers replaced Arbor with Kentik	0 customers replaced Kentik with Arbor
DEPLOYMENT	Fully-managed SaaS, cloud or on-premises	Customer managed appliances, VMs and storage at additional cost
CLOUD MONITORING	Integrates with AWS, GCP and Azure for full visibility across cloud VPC networks	No
DATA ENRICHMENT	Overlays custom business-specific tags onto network data like location names, usernames, app / service names. Group and filter data using human-readable labels.	No
INTERNET CONTEXT	Labels internet traffic with CDN provider names and application name / type / provider.	No
DATA GRANULARITY	1 second	5 minutes
DATA AVAILABILITY	All data received	Predefined “objects” only
DATA FILTERING	Unlimited filter terms	Two filter terms
DATA GROUPING	Up to 8 dimensions	1 dimension
DETECTION / ALERTING	Comprehensive ML-based network traffic change detection	DDoS only
MITIGATION	Integrates with multiple hardware mitigation vendors + automation API	Arbor mitigation hardware only
DASHBOARDS	Per-user fully customizable dashboards	One static dashboard
API	Robust REST API fully supports queries, configuration and raw data export.	Limited SOAP XML API supports some query types