• General Information
• • Manufacturer
  • F5 Networks
  • Manufacturer Website Address
  • http://www.f5.com
  • Brand Name
  • F5 Networks
  • Product Line
  • Herculon
  • Product Type
  • Network Security Appliance

Securing the Data Center with Next-Generation DDoS Protection

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks remain a top concern and leading cause of business service outages facing organizations today. Often used as a smoke screen for more dangerous hacks or theft, DDoS attacks threaten businesses of all sizes. Free or moderately priced DDoS attack resources available online enable even the most novice attackers to assemble electronic armies (bots) focused on weakness in protocols, firewalls, and applications that can be difficult to defend against. How quickly you discover and stop DDoS attacks is the key to overcoming the potential for monumental costs, damage to critical resources, and loss of important data.

F5® Herculon™ DDoS Hybrid Defender™ provides next-generation hybrid DDoS defense to ensure real-time coverage against ever-changing network attacks, sophisticated application attacks, volumetric DDoS threats, and those that hide behind SSL. This hybrid solution creates signatures automatically-enabling faster and more accurate threat identification and blocking of evasive threats. These include low-and-slow patterns and short sporadic bursts of 100+ Gb traffic that may go undetected. Herculon DDoS Hybrid Defender discovers and fingerprints new and unusual traffic patterns without human intervention, distinguishing and isolating potential malicious traffic from legitimate traffic almost instantaneously. With a combination of application stress-level context and behavior analytics, Herculon DDoS Hybrid Defender can accurately detect and mitigate the attack in progress.

Key benefits

Comprehensive DDoS coverage

Herculon DDoS Hybrid Defender leverages dynamic intelligence services, behavioral analytics, and event correlation. It also features unique anti-bot defense to secure against non-human threats including web scraping, brute force attacks, and application DDoS attacks.

Seamless hybrid defense

Protect the network with automated settings for DDoS threshold values, IP intelligent feeds, IP black listing, and remote trigger black-holing that blocks known bad actors immediately without wasting mitigation cycles.

Flexible deployment options

Seamlessly integrate on-premises DDoS protection that supports both inline or out-ofband processing with a cloud-based volumetric scrubbing service-for sub-second attack detection and a low total cost of ownership (TCO).

Comprehensive DDoS Coverage

Herculon DDoS Hybrid Defender provides the broadest attack coverage in any single offering. The proven technology ensures continuity of business services, which are threatened by hacktivists, cyber vandals, extortionists, and more. It speeds discovery of highly advanced DDoS attacks and provides fast detection and mitigation of network and application-based DDoS attacks. For attacks causing WAN bandwidth saturation, Herculon DDoS Hybrid Defender provides automated signaling to redirect traffic to a cloud scrubber.