BURLINGTON, MA — (Marketwire) — 03/26/13 — , a leading provider of network security and management products for enterprise and service provider networks, today announced the appointment of Tony King to Vice President of Global Sales. King previously served as Vice President and GM for Arbor in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In his new role, King will be focused on Arbor-s sales strategy and execution, as well as channel and partner relationships globally.
Before joining Arbor nearly a decade ago, King worked for Avici as Sales Director, focused on the sale of core router solutions to telecommunications companies in Northern Europe. Prior to Avici, King worked at Ericsson as a Regional Sales Director, where he was responsible for selling IP backbone and data solutions into the mobile and ISP carrier marketplace. King has also held roles with networking equipment vendors and in distribution sales.
“Arbor has a tremendous market opportunity in front of us and we are very fortunate to have someone of Tony-s character, capability and experience ready to serve in this role. Tony has broad knowledge of our technology, partners and customers, and brings deep domain expertise to his new role,” said Colin Doherty, President of Arbor Networks.
“This spring marks my 10th anniversary with Arbor Networks and it has been, and continues to be, a fantastic place to work. We have a great team with tremendous momentum that promises much success over the next few years,” said Tony King. “I am thrilled to be presented with the opportunity to be a driving force behind Arbor-s global market penetration as we look to new markets and geographies in the months and years ahead.”
The vast majority of the world-s leading service providers rely on Arbor-s platform to proactively help fend off malicious threats such as botnets and volumetric and application-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, while helping to strengthen the availability and quality of their services. The Peakflow SP platform includes two main components, Peakflow SP and the . Peakflow SP combines network-wide anomaly detection and traffic engineering with TMS-s carrier-class threat management, which is designed to automatically detect and surgically remove only attack traffic, while maintaining legitimate business traffic. By focusing on only the attack traffic, customer-facing services can remain available while providers work to actively mitigate attacks. The Peakflow SP platform also powers many of the world-s leading cloud-based DDoS managed security services.
Arbor-s Pravail family includes the which looks out from the network perimeter to aid in detecting and mitigating, in real-time, application-layer DDoS attacks. These stealthy attacks are the primary threat to security infrastructure solutions today which, if compromised, can threaten the very availability of networks themselves. monitors network traffic data and uses advanced analytics to help organizations close any security gaps left by firewalls and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS). It looks inside the network to help protect intellectual property and data from theft or loss caused by advanced malware threats, internal network misuse or abuse, or via infected mobile devices connected to the network.
Arbor Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of network security and management solutions for enterprise and service provider networks, including the vast majority of the world-s Internet service providers and many of the largest enterprise networks in use today. Arbor-s network security and management products help grow and protect customer networks, businesses and brands. Through its unparalleled, privileged relationships with worldwide service providers and global network operators, Arbor provides unequalled insight into and perspective on Internet security and traffic trends via the ATLAS® Active Threat Level Analysis System. Representing a unique collaborative effort with 250+ network operators across the globe, ATLAS enables the sharing of real-time security, traffic and routing information that informs numerous business decisions.
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Kevin Whalen
Arbor Networks
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