American security experts launch Sydney R&D lab

Arbor Networks has released the first product to come from their acquisition of Sydney-based startup Packetloop in September last year.

The product is an advanced threat detection, incident response and security forensics system called Pravail Security Analytics.

Pravail Security Analytics is built on Arbor’s ATLAS – Active Threat Level Analysis System. ATLAS is a collaboration of nearly 300 service providers who share anonymous data with Arbor, up to 70TB/sec of global Internet traffic. This collective view delivers globally scoped insight into the attack landscape.

The data is analysed by Arbor’s security research team who then develops detection methodologies. They create fingerprints that identify threats and malicious activity.

Arbor says that with attackers now using stealthy and sophisticated methods to penetrate an organisation’s perimeter, the indicators of compromise are often impossible to identify before it’s too late. By using this data, Arbor claims they can understand subtle, advanced targeted attacks, enterprises.

As well as being used for real-time attack response decisions, Pravail Security can be used to identify previously undetected attacks using the latest threat intelligence.

General availability of the Pravail Security Analytics on-premise Collector solution is planned for 30 April this year.