Corero SmartWall® TDS – DDoS Defense Appliances

SmartWall Threat Defense System (TDS) appliances deliver full line-rate performance for the fastest, always-on, or scrubbing DDoS protection. Available in efficient physical and virtual form-factors, they can be deployed directly in the datapath without the risk of dropping or delaying legitimate traffic.

The DDoS threat landscape continues to have businesses and government agencies around the world concerned about outages of their online services which could impact customers, cripple operations and result in major economic losses. Well publicized volumetric attacks that harness vulnerable IoT devices have recently raised awareness of the scale of the DDoS problem but the majority of modern DDoS attacks actually last less than 10 minutes in duration, are less than 5Gbps in size, and can hit networks with multiple vectors. These more sophisticated attacks can be just as damaging and slip under the radar of legacy DDoS protection that can only detect traditional attacks and has limited visibility into the latest DDoS vectors.

The sophistication of DDoS also continues to evolve each year. These attacks present a more challenging detection and mitigation task due to their varying amplitude, ports, and protocols. The average attack is short, meaning real-time detection and mitigation are essential requirements for comprehensive protection.

Key Benefits:

Comprehensive Visibility
SmartWall leverages data analytics to deliver sophisticated and comprehensive visibility, reporting and alerting capabilities for clear, actionable intelligence on the DDoS attack activity happening across the network.

Rapidly Detect DDoS Attacks of all Sizes
SmartWall fills the protection gap, by not only blocking the large volumetric attacks commonly associated with DDoS, but also detecting and surgically blocking the more common and smaller attacks which use the same vectors – many of which are too small or short in duration to be mitigated by legacy solutions.

Accurately and Automatically Allows the Good and Stops the Bad
Good traffic is able to flow uninterrupted, enabling services and applications to stay online, while DDoS traffic is surgically blocked before it has the chance to cause any damaging effects.

Reduced Operating Costs
Automated DDoS response from Corero significantly decreases human intervention and false positives for reduced operational costs and lowest TCO.

Automatic Protection
Automatically mitigates a wide range of DDoS attacks, without operator intervention, maintaining full connectivity to avoid disrupting the delivery of legitimate traffic – stopping attacks faster.

Hybrid DDoS Protection
Enhances cloud-only solutions with highly accurate, real-time, on-premises protection.

Always-On or Scrubbing Deployments
Physical or virtual appliance flexibility in-line, or in-datapath, at the edge, or out-of-band scrubbing with fast and accurate sampled packet, or flow-based detection that redirects attack traffic for mitigation.

Managed Services Enabler
Hosting Providers, MSPs, MSSPs and ISPs can enhance security service offerings by delivering real-time automatic DDoS protection as-a-service to their customers with upstream signaling capabilities enabling them to protect their customers without “blackholing” or disrupting legitimate traffic.

Security Policy Enforcement
Always-on traffic inspection, and real-time mitigation enforces security policies that prevent volumetric layers 3-7 DDoS attacks for both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic.

Selecting the Right SmartWall Solution

Corero’s three pillars for delivering effective real-time DDoS protection are; SmartWall Threat Defense System (TDS) appliances deployed in the incoming data path, SmartWall Threat Defense Director (TDD) controlling intelligent network edge infrastructure devices capable, and SmartWall Threat Defense Cloud (TDC) for a hybrid combination of on-premises and cloud protection.

Whether you deploy TDS and/or TDD on-premises protection, SmartWall delivers fast, automatic, surgical protection against damaging volumetric and state exhaustion DDoS attacks. Combining this with TDC, for all but the very largest service provider networks, ensures SmartWall delivers effective protection against DDoS attacks of all sizes.

Learn more about the key benefits of deploying the Corero – TDS – SmartWall Threat Defense System (TDS) and/or TDD – See the Datasheet.