21 June 2017

Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Arbor Networks Inc., the security division of NETSCOUT (NASDAQ: NTCT), announces the appointment of James Cater to the position of vice president and general manager for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). Arbor generates more than half of its revenue from international markets and has been active in EMEA for more than fifteen years. James will be responsible for driving Arbor’s sales and channel initiatives as the company further penetrates the service provider and enterprise markets with its suite of visibility, DDoS defence and advanced threat protection solutions.

James brings over 25 years of experience across several industries including service providers, global enterprise, healthcare and financial services. He joins Arbor from Tata Communications where he was vice president of the Global Systems Integrators Business building, scaling global partnerships and providing them with knowledge, skills and investment needed to scale their business and open new markets.

“Arbor Networks is a channel-focused security business deeply commited to partner success,” said Tony King, senior vice president of worldwide sales, Arbor Networks. “James’ background, building strategic, mutually beneficial partnerships, as well as his sales management experience driving growth for a market leader, are an ideal fit for Arbor Networks.”

“I am proud to lead our team and grow our business for Arbor Networks in EMEA. Our market leading capabilities deliver immediate relevance to our channel, service provider and OEM partners enabling them to provide security and protection to organisations of all size,” added James Cater.

Arbor has designed a broad portfolio of solutions that specifically address the needs of enterprises, service providers, data centre and cloud operators:

·         Arbor Cloud offers a fully managed, best-practice DDoS defence service that tightly integrates on-premises and cloud-based mitigation in a single solution.

  • Arbor Networks SP provides comprehensive network visibility and reporting capabilities to help detect and understand availability threats, improve traffic engineering, peering relationships and service performance. New big data capabilities create a photographic memory of network traffic data plus new visual analytics for exploring it at the speed of thought.

  • Arbor Networks TMS surgically removes DDoS attack traffic from the network without disrupting key network services. It also provides comprehensive, real-time visibility into network applications, proactively monitoring denial-of-service attacks to maintain service performance.

  • Arbor Networks APS provides proven, on-premise DDoS protection against both known and emerging availability threats to ensure business continuity.

  • Arbor Spectrum is a high-performance internal network traffic security solution. By merging an organisation’s own threat and network activity with Arbor’s proven traffic intelligence and behavioral indicators, Arbor Spectrum enables security teams to discover the most damaging threats faster and more accurately than ever before.

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About Arbor Networks
Arbor Networks, the security division of NETSCOUT, is driven to protect the infrastructure and ecosystem of the internet. It is the principle upon which we were founded in 2000; and remains the common thread that runs through all that we do today. Arbor’s approach is rooted in the study of network traffic. Arbor’s suite of visibility, DDoS protection and advanced threat solutions provide customers with a micro view of their network enhanced by a macro view of global internet traffic and emerging threats through our ATLAS infrastructure. Sourced from more than 300 service provider customers, ATLAS delivers intelligence based on insight into approximately 1/3 of global internet traffic. Supported by Arbor’s Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT), smart workflows and rich user context, Arbor’s network insights help customers see, understand and solve the most complex and consequential security challenges facing their organisations. 

To learn more about Arbor products and services, please visit our website at arbornetworks.com or follow on Twitter @ArborNetworks. Arbor’s research, analysis and insight is shared via the ASERT blog. For a global data visualisation of DDoS attacks that leverages our ATLAS intelligence, visit the Digital Attack Map, a collaboration with Jigsaw, an incubator within Alphabet, Google’s parent company (NASDAQ: GOOGL).

About Safe Harbor
Forward-looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and other federal securities laws. Investors are cautioned that statements in this press release, which are not strictly historical statements, including without limitation, the statements related to Arbor’s portfolio of solutions, constitute forward-looking statements which involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results could differ materially from the forward-looking statements due to known and unknown risk, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors. For a more detailed description of the risk factors associated with NETSCOUT, please refer to NETSCOUT’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2016 and NETSCOUT’s subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, which are on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. NETSCOUT assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking information contained in this press release or with respect to the announcements described herein.

Trademark Notice: Arbor Networks, the Arbor Networks logo and ATLAS are all trademarks of Arbor Networks, Inc. All other brands may be the trademarks of their respective owners.

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