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Allot DDoS Secure vs NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS Protection & Mitigation comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Allot DDoS Secure
Ranking in Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection
33rd
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS Protect...
Ranking in Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection
4th
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
57
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection category, the mindshare of Allot DDoS Secure is 0.7%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of NETSCOUT Arbor DDoS Protection & Mitigation is 5.5%, down from 11.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Arbor DDoS5.5%
Allot DDoS Secure0.7%
Other93.8%
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer1767993 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network and Security Consultant | Specialized Services at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
Protects critical infrastructure from alerts but GUI needs improvement
If we consider a default setup without customization, I would rate it a ten out of ten. However, the initial setup can be time-consuming for specific requirements needing customization, possibly requiring extensive fine-tuning. With the detailed and specific features we require, along with the need for tuning and customization, the process can indeed take several weeks. Allot DDoS Secure's case of integration with existing infrastructure is not too hard.
reviewer1331304 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Research And Development at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Automated threat intelligence and flow-based mitigation have improved our DDoS defense
A very useful feature in Arbor DDoS is its ability to send flow spec announcements to routers. For example, if it is clear that a Layer 3 or Layer 4 attack is occurring and the attack pattern is identified through source and destination IP addresses and ports, you can generate flow spec filters. These filters are transferred through BGP to border routers, which automatically build filters, mitigating the attack even at the network's boundary and preventing it from reaching the TMS. This allows the TMS to focus on other tasks. This is a highly effective feature that can mitigate huge volumetric attacks; for example, we experienced a 32-gigabit attack, and all those 32 gigabits were dropped by our border routers, not by Arbor DDoS itself. The flow spec announcement was generated by Arbor DDoS, and as far as I know, the same technology is used by Radware, but it comes under a different feature and a different license. At the time, we were told that flow spec mitigation was an additional very expensive license to purchase from Radware, while Radware included everything in one package.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product has good architecture, concepts, and diagrams to protect end customers. Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and pattern creation are its most valuable features. The tool's alerting systems protect critical infrastructure."
"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."
"Without Arbor, we'd probably be around 75 to 80 percent uptime."
"Arbor is a great network service solution."
"With real-time packet capture features, you can easily and quickly response."
"The ability to correlate Arbor managed objects with internet services deployed accurately profiles traffic and makes coordinating appropriate mitigation response simple."
"Valuable features include simple and centralized management of user access and capabilities, as well as Web 2.0 interactive attack alerting, traffic visualization, and mitigation service control."
"Mitigating network level volumetric attacks, complete network visibility and complete control on applying countermeasures."
"Arbor DDoS is easy to use, provides effective blocking of DDoS attacks, and can be used for DNS, web, and main servers. Additionally, this solution is far easier to operate than others solutions, such as Fortinet DDoS."
 

Cons

"The tool's GUI and Java-based management platform needs improvement."
"I have observed that the SNMP traps aspect that sends information to third-party solutions needs improvement."
"Real-case scenarios that have taken too long to resolve or were escalated can be directly converted into articles."
"An improvement to Arbor DDoS would be to make evaluation licenses and virtual machines available."
"The solution's shortcomings are related to its documentation, so it's an area that needs to improve."
"The look and feel of the management console is a little old, excessively simple."
"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."
"Arbor's products are very expensive. Their competitors are cheap when compared with Arbor."
"There is some room for AI to take place."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I rate Allot DDoS Secure's pricing a five out of ten."
"Because the solutions from competitors are very different, it's not easy to compare. However, the licensing from Arbor is clear and understandable and the pricing is reasonable when looking at the market, in general."
"The solution's pricing is based on a licensing model that is expensive when compared to other tools."
"I don't deal with the pricing, but it seems that you need to get basic support in order to upgrade the software and implement some patches."
"I believe that the price of Arbor DDoS falls under the bracket of medium to high price."
"The price is a little high."
"The licensing of a complete Arbor solution, including fire-walling and unified site management, can get expensive."
"The pricing of the solution is cheap."
"Arbor DDoS is quite expensive, but all these solutions are expensive because they deal with confidential information."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
16%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

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Small Business26
Midsize Enterprise14
Large Enterprise29
 

Questions from the Community

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Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?
I would say if it’s an ISP that will build a scrubbing center, Netscout/Arbor is a good solution. In all other solutions, Imperva is a great choice.
Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?
Arbor would be the best bid, apart from Arbor, Palo Alto and Fortinet have good solutions. As this is an ISP, I would prefer Arbor.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Arbor DDoS?
The prices for Arbor DDoS are expensive. The licensing is subscription-based. From our sales department, they discuss that prices are very high.
 

Also Known As

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Arbor Networks SP, Arbor Networks TMS, Arbor Cloud for ENT
 

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Sample Customers

TIER-1 Cable, Swiftel Networks, Bristol Virginia
Xtel Communications
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