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PROS

Arbor DDoS offers predefined filters and techniques to effectively stop and mitigate DDoS attacks.
Arbor DDoS boasts scalability and is suitable for large organizations and service providers.
Arbor DDoS provides global rankings in reliability and is capable of responding to a wide range of threats.
Arbor DDoS automatically detects and prevents DDoS attacks using AI capabilities and anomaly detection.
Arbor DDoS enables detailed packet capture and traffic analysis for effective threat mitigation.

CONS

Auto mitigation impact with default filters affects customer links, requiring a more nuanced system for discerning actual attacks from legitimate traffic.
Integration challenges with existing infrastructure and technologies due to limited backward compatibility and support for wider variety of hardware and protocols.
Pricing concerns due to high costs and subscription-based licensing with additional fees for small features, demanding a more flexible and transparent pricing model.
Lack of development in AI and automation to streamline operations and improve detection and response capabilities.
Inadequate training and responsiveness from support, especially after NETSCOUT acquisition, highlighting a need for better regional focus and skills to handle complex issues.
 

Arbor DDoS Pros review quotes

RL
Aug 10, 2020
We use it not only for DDoS detection and protection, but we also use it for traffic analysis and capacity planning as well. We've also been able to extend the use of it to other security measures within our company, the front-line defense, not only for DDoS, but for any kind of scanning malware that may be picked up. It's also used for outbound attacks, which has helped us mitigate those and lower our bandwidth costs...
TP
Feb 8, 2021
We have taken on the Arbor Cloud subscription, which is really useful because you secure yourself for anything beyond your current mitigation capacity. This is a really good feature of Arbor that is available.
UK
Dec 19, 2018
Our customers are very happy when we provide them with the interface... They can check how many attacks they have faced and how many attacks have been blocked.
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EN
Mar 15, 2020
It is fully mitigating the attacks. We've dealt with other ones where we didn't necessarily see that. The detection is very good. It's also very simple to use. Arbor is a single pane of glass, whereas with other solutions you might have a detection pane of glass and then have to go to a separate interface to deal with the mitigation. That single pane of glass makes it much simpler.
Security1a8a - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 10, 2018
It's just one dashboard with mitigation. You decide which mitigation you want and at what threshold to do this or that. Its operation is pretty simple. It's easy.
SZ
May 29, 2025
Because this Arbor DDoS product is the best, I do not need to spend time supporting it.
MR
Feb 10, 2021
The most valuable features include the traffic categorization and control of the traffic. The filtering of the traffic is very precise. When you want to stop some traffic, you precisely stop that traffic.
reviewer1335690 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 4, 2021
The auto-mitigation, that signaling feature, where it automatically raises an alarm that a line is under attack, is important. The upstream service provider will then do something to reduce the load on our internet lines. The fact that it's automated means I don't have to sit and always be looking at threats coming through. It does it almost automatically, without any intervention by me.
DO
Jun 26, 2025
Inside this product, there are many different configurations for protection, and we have one of the best experiences with it, specifically with the Atlas product.
Waseem Alkhawaja - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 15, 2023
The quality of the technical support provided by Arbor DDoS is premium.
 

Arbor DDoS Cons review quotes

RL
Aug 10, 2020
I would also like more visibility into their bad actor feeds, their fingerprint feeds. We try to be good stewards of the internet, so if there are attacks, or bad actors within our networks, if there were an easier way for us to find them, we could stop them from doing their malicious activity, and at the same time save money.
TP
Feb 8, 2021
There is always room for improvement for any product or service. If we can bring in more agility when deploying services, that is definitely a scope which we can work towards. Nowadays, everything is being offered as a service model. It is not that we have to deploy the physical hardware, many things move up to the cloud, or even can be delivered in the VNS form in the customer's environment as well. So, in that space, if we can add more features to make it more seamless for customers to use and make it available through some marketplace, not only at the hyperscalers, but also for any on-prem deployment, that definitely would be a big plus.
UK
Dec 19, 2018
Because we had some routers that were somewhat old, they were not integrated with Arbor. They did not support the NetFlow version that Arbor was running. That was a challenge. We had to upgrade the routers. Some backward-compatibility would be helpful.
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Security1a8a - PeerSpot reviewer
Dec 10, 2018
For troubleshooting problems, it's not so intuitive. It's not straightforward. This is the core of their kernel, so they need to improve it a little bit... In F5 I have full control of everything.
SZ
May 29, 2025
The prices for Arbor DDoS are expensive. The licensing is subscription-based.
MR
Feb 10, 2021
On the application layer, they could have a better distributed traffic flow. They could improve that a bit. For network data it is very effective, but the application layer can be improved.
CloudSece7fe - PeerSpot reviewer
Oct 29, 2018
The look and feel of the management console is a little old, excessively simple. If you compare it with other solutions, the look and feel of the console is like you're using technology from five or six years ago. It doesn't show all the technology that is actually behind it. It looks like an older solution, even though it is not.
DO
Jun 26, 2025
Arbor DDoS has some difficult pricing rules. For many different small features, we have to pay additional fees for every small feature.
Waseem Alkhawaja - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 15, 2023
With Arbor DDoS, its integration issues with other technologies or other vendors' technologies is an area of concern that could be improved.
it_user1418178 - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 17, 2021
We need a SaaS model for the solution.