Arbor DDoS vs Check Point DDoS Protector comparison

NETSCOUT and Check Point Software Technologies are both solutions in the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection category. NETSCOUT is ranked #3 with an average rating of 9.3, while Check Point Software Technologies is ranked #20 with an average rating of 8.0. NETSCOUT holds a 9.8% mindshare in DDOS, compared to Check Point Software Technologies’s 1.0% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of NETSCOUT users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Check Point Software Technologies users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 5, 2024

Check Point DDoS Protector and Arbor DDoS are solutions in the DDoS protection category. Check Point potentially leads in pricing and deployment simplicity, whereas Arbor demonstrates superiority in feature set robustness.

Features:Check Point DDoS Protector includes comprehensive defense mechanisms, real-time performance monitoring, and integration with Check Point's broader security suite. Arbor DDoS offers advanced threat intelligence, extensive traffic visibility, and sophisticated analytics capabilities.

Room for Improvement:Check Point DDoS Protector may enhance its threat intelligence and analytics capabilities. Improving integration flexibility with non-Check Point security products could also add value. Expanding feature sets for more advanced threats might increase its competitiveness. Arbor DDoS could benefit from simplifying its deployment process and initial setup. Streamlining its interface to be more intuitive for new users may increase its appeal. Cost-efficiency improvements, particularly for small businesses, would make Arbor more accessible.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service:Check Point DDoS Protector is noted for its fast deployment and reliable customer support, suitable for businesses needing a straightforward solution. Arbor DDoS, while potentially more intricate to implement, provides thorough guidance and has well-regarded customer support, catering to those requiring detailed technical assistance.

Pricing and ROI:Check Point DDoS Protector is often favored for its cost-effectiveness and attractive initial setup pricing, appealing to budget-conscious firms. Arbor DDoS, although pricier upfront, promises a higher ROI with its advanced security features, making it desirable for those seeking long-term protection benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

Arbor DDoS

Ranking in Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

3rd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Check Point DDoS Protector

Ranking in Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

20th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection category, the mindshare of Arbor DDoS is 9.8%, down from 13.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Check Point DDoS Protector is 1.0%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Arbor DDoS	9.8%
Check Point DDoS Protector	1.0%
Other	89.2%

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection

Featured Reviews

Sanjin Zuhric

Team Lead Network Engineer at Artco Group d.o.o Sarajevo

Reliable protection ensures robust network defense and simplifies DDoS management

I am not sure if we plan to use additional features because we have many vendors and platforms that we support. We use the main function and that is it. The prices for Arbor DDoS are expensive. The licensing is subscription-based. From our sales department, they discuss that prices are very high. A potential improvement could be establishing a contract with Cisco to sell via their channel. This could be beneficial because we work extensively with Cisco. If you are a Cisco partner, you can sell Arbor DDoS. That would be good for customers that are Cisco-based because many customers in Bosnia are Cisco-based customers. BH Telecom, our main customer, sells Arbor DDoS to other customers for protection. They buy Arbor and sell the product services to others via Internet links. They sell add-on DDoS protection via Arbor DDoS. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Arbor DDoS is not present in many customers. Some customers try to sell it, but they sell other vendors such as F5. Arbor DDoS is mainly seen in telecom operators but not much in other customers.

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reviewer2753559

Cyber Security Solution Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Ensures service availability and handles attacks effectively though initial setup needs expertise

The best features that Check Point DDoS Protector offers, which stand out to me the most, are real-time detection and mitigation of application-layer DDoS attacks, easy integration with the existing Check Point security infrastructure, and low latency protection that does not disrupt legitimate traffic. The centralized console makes it easy to manage policy across devices, and the integration is straightforward since it works seamlessly with Check Point firewall and management and other security products. Check Point DDoS Protector has positively impacted my organization by improving uptime, reducing incidents, and providing cost savings. It will reduce the incidents up to 30%.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable features include the traffic categorization and control of the traffic. The filtering of the traffic is very precise. When you want to stop some traffic, you precisely stop that traffic."

"Arbor DDoS's best feature is that we can put the certificates in, and it will look at layer seven and the encrypted traffic and do the required signaling."

"The most valuable feature of Arbor DDoS is that it is based in most of the ISPs all over the world, and Egyptian ISPs are one of them."

"The most valuable feature is mitigation, which can blackhole the IP."

"Using standard BGP, NetFlow and SNMP ensure wide compatibility. There are also peering traffic reports that can help identify upstream peering opportunities. The ATLAS aggregation service allows us to contribute to the global DDoS data and benefit from overall trends."

"Companies that live from their presence on the internet will get a very high return on investment from Arbor."

"It provides packet capture and we can block or whitelist whichever IPs we need to. Whatever traffic we want to block - and we get IPs from internal teams and from national teams - we block at the Arbor level only, because if it gets to the firewall then firewall bandwidth will be taken."

"There are a number of valuable features in this product, like Cloud Signaling and Threat Intelligence feeds."

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"It uses several layers of security."

"Check Point DDoS Protector has positively impacted my organization by improving uptime, reducing incidents, and providing cost savings."

"Check Point DDoS Protector is a product that uses machine learning and behavior analysis."

"The is a really low level of the false-positive alerts (when the clean traffic is marked as DDoS) due to some advanced techniques used by Check Point under the hood."

"Currently, we have fewer incidents with viruses. We improved our IQ operations and security using this solution. Our company's better after using Check Point."

"This product uses auto-learning and behavioral analysis to establish baselines for legitimate traffic, and automatically detects and blocks traffic behavior that does not conform."

"As our business continues to grow, we can grow this product simultaneously."

"It can be deployed as a hardware appliance, virtual appliance, or as a cloud service."

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Cons

"When it comes to some false positives, we need to tweak the system from time to time. There is room for improvement when it comes to the actual mitigation because of some false positives."

"The look and feel of the management console is a little old, excessively simple. If you compare it with other solutions, the look and feel of the console is like you're using technology from five or six years ago. It doesn't show all the technology that is actually behind it. It looks like an older solution, even though it is not."

"For troubleshooting problems, it's not so intuitive. It's not straightforward. This is the core of their kernel, so they need to improve it a little bit... In F5 I have full control of everything."

"They should improve the reporting section and make it a little bit more detailed. I would like to have much better and more detailed reports."

"Arbor DDoS could improve out-of-the-box reporting, it could be better."

"A small improvement could be a better reporting system."

"I have observed that the SNMP traps aspect that sends information to third-party solutions needs improvement."

"The solution's shortcomings are related to its documentation, so it's an area that needs to improve."

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"Monitoring and reporting are the things that can be introduced in the future."

"Check Point should develop a DDoS solution because they don't have one and we need to use another solution, in our case, Imperva. This is a problem because we need to have two firewalls. We would like to only have one solution because it would improve the management, we would have fewer incidents, and we wouldn't need to talk to more than one person for support."

"Check Point DDoS Protector can be improved in that initial fine-tuning of policies can be complex and may require expertise."

"Check Point DDoS Protector does not provide the ability to upload data for the blacklist/whitelist in bulk, which is one of the big points that need to be improved to facilitate configurations."

"The public documentation is a detail that must be improved in order to have greater implementations with the best practices in this case of the Check Point manufacturer."

"It does not provide the capability to upload data for blacklisting/whitelisting in bulk."

"The product is expensive."

"I would like applications for Android and IOS where we can follow the events, and, if necessary, make changes."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"You need to find a way to get a good offering from Arbor by negotiating a price. That is the challenge."

"There is room for improvement with the pricing. It is an expensive solution. The issue with the pricing is more the way it is built. Right now we're paying per router, and there's a limitation there. I would like to see bundle-pricing where there is an overall solution cost."

"The price is a little high."

"I'm a technical guy. But I know it's expensive compared to its competitors. After you have the on-premise solution, for your solution to be effective you have to subscribe to an "upper level," so there's another cost. There is also a subscription to cloud services, which is another cost."

"Pricing is slightly on the higher side."

"Our customers always complain about the price of the product."

"I don't deal with the pricing, but it seems that you need to get basic support in order to upgrade the software and implement some patches."

"The licensing of a complete Arbor solution, including fire-walling and unified site management, can get expensive."

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"I don't deal with the pricing, but it seems that you need to get basic support in order to upgrade the DDoS database for new attacks and so on."

"It's an expensive solution. It's one of the most expensive solutions in the world. It's cheaper than Palo Alto and Cisco but these are expensive solutions. Fortinet is cheaper."

"The appliance comes with a loaded hardware license, and additional options such as SSL can be purchased and enabled."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Comms Service Provider

35%

Manufacturing Company

15%

Educational Organization

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	25
Midsize Enterprise	14
Large Enterprise	29

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	12
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	5

Questions from the Community

Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

I would say if it’s an ISP that will build a scrubbing center, Netscout/Arbor is a good solution. In all other solutions, Imperva is a great choice.

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Which is the best DDoS protection solution for a big ISP for monitoring and mitigating?

Arbor would be the best bid, apart from Arbor, Palo Alto and Fortinet have good solutions. As this is an ISP, I would prefer Arbor.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Arbor DDoS?

The prices for Arbor DDoS are expensive. The licensing is subscription-based. From our sales department, they discuss that prices are very high.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Check Point DDoS Protector?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that it is straightforward with no challenges.

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What needs improvement with Check Point DDoS Protector?

Check Point DDoS Protector can be improved in that initial fine-tuning of policies can be complex and may require expertise. Additionally, reporting and analytics could be more detailed and customi...

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What is your primary use case for Check Point DDoS Protector?

My main use case for Check Point DDoS Protector is to protect our network perimeter against DDoS attacks, ensuring service availability and application layer attack in real time. I can give you a s...

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Also Known As

Arbor Networks SP, Arbor Networks TMS, Arbor Cloud for ENT

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Overview

Arbor DDoS offers a comprehensive defense system against DDoS attacks, integrating a user-friendly GUI and advanced threat mitigation technologies for enhanced network protection.

Arbor DDoS is recognized for its ability to manage high-volume DDoS attacks efficiently, providing extensive protection through real-time traffic analysis and automated threat detection. It utilizes advanced techniques such as blackhole and BGP Flowspec for effective threat management. Arbor's cloud signaling allows users to handle and mitigate volumetric attacks while maintaining service availability. Though it provides robust security features, users note potential improvements in auto-mitigation, scalability, and AI integration. Challenges like an outdated graphical interface, hardware stability, and false positives need addressing to further enhance its usability and integration with third-party systems.

What are the key features of Arbor DDoS?

User-Friendly GUI: Provides an intuitive interface for ease of use.
Effective Mitigation: Combats high-volume DDoS attacks effectively.
Predefined Filters: Simplifies threat management with pre-configured settings.
Real-Time Traffic Analysis: Offers insights into traffic patterns and potential threats.
Automated Threat Detection: Identifies and mitigates threats without manual intervention.
Able to Handle High-Volume Attacks: Ensures extensive protection even under large-scale attacks.
Packet Capture and Integration: Facilitates comprehensive security analysis.
Cloud Signaling: Enhances attack traffic management through hybrid deployments.

What benefits should users expect from Arbor DDoS?

Enhanced Protection: Safeguards networks from diverse DDoS threats.
Improved Service Availability: Maintains business operations without disruptions.
Timely Reporting: Delivers detailed attack reports for proactive prevention.
AI Capabilities: Leverages AI for smarter threat mitigation strategies.
Comprehensive Security: Combines on-premise and cloud deployments for optimal defense.

Internet service providers and telecom companies commonly adopt Arbor DDoS to protect their networks and infrastructure from DDoS attacks. It is also implemented in financial and government sectors to ensure web application security and maintain high availability. Arbor DDoS supports a hybrid approach, utilizing both on-premise and cloud solutions to manage traffic efficiently and sustain service quality during attacks.

NETSCOUT

Modern DDoS attacks use new techniques to exploit areas that traditional security solutions are not equipped to protect. These attacks can cause serious network downtime to businesses who rely on networks and Web services to operate. DDoS Protector Security Appliances and Cloud DDoS Protection Services block destructive DDoS attacks before they cause damage
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Sample Customers

Xtel Communications

Boston Properties

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