Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are usually malicious threats designed to bring a network down by flooding it with unnecessary traffic. Often the targets of the attacks are mail and web servers, which get overwhelmed by bogus requests, preventing legitimate requests from getting through—hence, the loss of service. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks simply use more than one computer to compromise the system, making them even more difficult to overcome.

Regardless of how DoS and DDoS attacks originate, they can negatively impact the network a number of ways:

• Consume valuable resources, such as bandwidth, disk space, memory and more
• Limit the availability of critical configuration information, such as routing ACLs
• Disrupt the operation of physical network components—from switches and wireless to e-mail servers

Enterasys Secure Networks™ architecture provides the most effective solution for detecting, isolating and eliminating DoS and DDoS attacks—well before they can bring down your network. The key is the embedded security found in every component of the Secure Networks infrastructure that recognizes anomalies at the point of entry and ensures the fastest response and remediation.

• Exploitative attacks target the data center to disrupt business operations
• Matrix™ X core router's robust architecture maintains high availability of mission-critical applications during threat
• Dragon® IDS/IPS detects attack and notifies NetSight® management
• NetSight management locates source of attack on the network and isolates threat by enforcing a policy change on user's port
• Threat is isolated maintaining business continuity

• Fastest detection, location and response capability
• Most pervasive deployment of network security functionality
• Most precise security enforcement—pinpoint control
• Only open architecture in the industry—leverage what you have today with no “rip and replace”
• Greater automation for simpler operation
• Fewer products to deploy and manage
• No performance trade-off for advanced security capability
• Flexible architecture dramatically reduces solution-time required for future issues
• Best total cost of ownership in the industry