Case Study: U.S. Heavy-Duty Equipment Manufacturing Company achieves automated network perimeter defense and DDoS protection with NETSCOUT's Arbor Edge Defense

Manufacturer Improves Network Perimeter Defense and DDoS Prevention With Arbor Edge Defense

A U.S. manufacturer of heavy‑duty equipment with production in more than a dozen countries relied on NETSCOUT nGeniusONE with InfiniStreamNG and Packet Flow Switches for packet monitoring, but SecOps’ perimeter defense was manual and brittle—maintaining a large rolling IP blacklist at the firewall that was time‑consuming to update, often outdated, and insufficient as the company’s threat landscape and DDoS risk grew.

To address this, the company deployed NETSCOUT Arbor Edge Defense inline on the same tapped links feeding NETSCOUT visibility, automating deny/allow lists and DDoS mitigation (stopping attacks up to 40 Gbps and TCP‑state exhaustion attacks). The deployment improved firewall efficiency, strengthened perimeter protection, enabled NetOps–SecOps collaboration, provided integration via RESTful APIs (Syslog, STIX/TAXII), and reduced costs by consolidating to a single vendor while increasing ROI from existing security investments.