Case Study: U.S. University achieves rapid DDoS detection and prevention with NETSCOUT Arbor solution

U.S. University Detects and Prevents DDoS Attacks with NETSCOUT Arbor Solution

A historic U.S. university faced a sudden, volumetric DDoS attack that disrupted services during student move‑in day just as it was planning a technology and cybersecurity refresh. IT needed a rapid, compatible solution that could be deployed on its existing Cisco infrastructure and scale to a 100G environment to restore availability and prevent future attacks.

The university implemented a multi‑layer NETSCOUT Arbor deployment—Arbor Cloud for Enterprise, Arbor SP, the Threat Mitigation System, and the ATLAS Intelligence Feed—combining cloud scrubbing with on‑premises detection and mitigation. The integrated approach restored services quickly, enabled local mitigation of application attacks that cloud‑only solutions can miss, improved collaboration between Network and Security Operations, and provided scalable, 100G‑compatible protection for the university’s critical systems and data.