As a result, a network administrator must investigate each alarm to ensure that it is not a false alarm, but an actual DoS attack.
False positives are costly for companies.
Network administrators using a CaptIO device can now also create sophisticated policies with multiple parameters for defining allowable traffic. The CaptIO device dynamically applies and removes policies to ensure that services remain operating throughout an active attack. For example, a policy can limit the bandwidth available on a network for Napster-type traffic from a particular source or to a particular destination. Flexible policies can also be established for allocating more or less bandwidth on the fly to a particular type of traffic as those traffic volumes increase or decrease. There are many possibilities for managing network traffic using our Traffic Restriction and Profiling technology, Helgeson said.