TMCnet News
Arbor Networks Signs Distribution Agreement with Westcon Solutions in Hong KongArbor Networks Inc., the security division of NETSCOUT (NASDAQ: NTCT), today announced its partnership with Westcon Solutions, the leading value-added regional distributor of network infrastructure, security and video conferencing solutions, to cover the Hong Kong market. The addition broadens Westcon Solutions' Security practice and better positions its IT service provider partners to more effectively address the fast-evolving cyber security needs of today's complex, highly diversified technology environments. "Arbor Networks (News - Alert) is an industry leader in mitigating network-based threats on a global scale and because of this, we are very excited to extend our partnership with Arbor to Hong Kong," said Wilson Ho, managing director at Westcon Solutions. "In today's threat landscape, it is more important than ever before to provide companies with the right security infrastructure to protect their businesses and customers. Our partnership provides companies the tools and support they need to remain on the front-foot against cyber-criminals." "With advanced security threats and DDoS attacks growing at a rapid pace, no business can afford to be complacent when it comes to combatting today's cyber-criminals. Because of this, there is a fantastic opportunity for solution providers to offer protection against these attacks to customers across the world," said Jeff Buhl, Arbor Networks vice president for Asia Pacific. "Westcon Solutions has been a proven, trusted partner of Arbor's for a long time and continues to consistently match our solution with customers and solution providers. Following our success in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, we look forward to further expanding our customer base in Hong Kong." Developing High-Growth Market Opportunities As part of its incubation program launched in June 2015, Westcon Solutions continually evaluates the technology landscape for innovative products and services that hold long-term opportunity for its customers' success. Westcon Solutions makes it easy for vendors to ramp up in each country or region, providing a repeatable, efficient, cost-effective, scalable process to expand geographically. Meanwhile, vendors can benefit from the distributor's highly specialized solutions groups and services to more accurately target the IT service providers and the markets they wish to reach. The incubation program also strengthens Westcon Solutions overall ecosystem, enhancing its ability to offer multi-vendor solutions that solve more complex business problems. Arbor Networks Solutions Overview Arbor Networks' customers gain a micro view of their own network through its suite of products, combined with a macro view of global internet traffic and emerging threats, through Arbor's Active Threat Level Analysis System (ATLAS) threat intelligence infrastructure. ATLAS provides a comprehensive, aggregated view of global traffic and threats. More than 330 service provider customers contribute 140 Tbps of global traffic intelligence, enabling Arbor's Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT) to develop threat protections that are delivered directly into customer products to stop distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and malware campaigns. Arbor DDoS solutions are proven on the world's most demanding networks. The portfolio offers complete deployment flexibility to meet the needs of any organization, from virtual solutions and network-embedded solutions within Cisco's (News - Alert) ASR 9000 routers to appliances for enterprises and carrier-class scrubbing centers. Arbor Cloud offers a fully managed, best-practice DDoS defense service that tightly integrates on-premises and cloud-based mitigation in a single solution. The Arbor DDoS portfolio enables customers to ensure the availability of their critical infrastructure with the world's most broadly-deployed DDoS mitigation technology. Arbor's advanced threat solution, called Arbor Spectrum (News - Alert), leverages integrated Netflow and packet capture technology for network-wide situational awareness and broad and deep traffic visibility and security intelligence that transforms threat detection and incident response through real-time and historical insights, stunning visualization and forensics. The Arbor Spectrum solution enables customers to protect their most critical assets from advanced threats that are already in their network.
About Westcon Solutions
About Arbor Networks To learn more about Arbor products and services, please visit our website at arbornetworks.com or follow on Twitter (News - Alert) @ArborNetworks. Arbor's research, analysis and insight is shared via the ASERT blog. For a global data visualization of DDoS attacks that leverages our ATLAS intelligence, visit the Digital Attack Map, a collaboration with Jigsaw, an incubator within Alphabet, Google's (News - Alert) parent company (NASDAQ: GOOGL).
Safe Harbor Trademark Notice: Arbor Networks, the Arbor Networks logo and ATLAS are all trademarks of Arbor Networks, Inc. All other brands may be the trademarks of their respective owners.
View source version on businesswire.com: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20161122005353/en/ |