Reduce the Impact of Worm Traffic on Your Network

Worms have shifted focus to residential broadband subscribers -- the weakest, most uncontrolled point in the Internet. Home users are difficult to protect en masse, and service providers are forced to bear escalating support costs and attacks on their ability to deliver the best possible Internet experience.

Service providers face a different dimension of the worm problem by the collective probing and continuously replicating behavior exhibited by these attacks. Worms cause routers and flow-based devices to exhaust resources on processing excessive, malformed, maliciously crafted traffic. This degrades service levels for the entire network.

Individual protection, while ideal at the subscriber level, is not effective enough at the service provider level. A very small percentage of unprotected or poorly protected subscriber machines can create havoc for the rest of the service provider's network.

Sandvine pioneered the behavioral approach to network protection that is gaining widespread acceptance as the only realistic defense against modern malware. By building a layer of intelligence into the network itself, a layer that is capable of catching diverse and zero-day threats, we believe that a service provider can dramatically reduce the expenses associated with protecting a network’s operational integrity.