# Arbor Networks

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/arbor-networks/  
**Website:** https://www.netscout.com/arbor  
**APIs profiled:** 2

Arbor Networks is the DDoS protection and network-visibility division of NETSCOUT (Arbor Networks was acquired by NETSCOUT in 2015). Drawing on more than 25 years of experience and visibility into roughly 800 Tbps of global internet traffic across 550+ service-provider and enterprise customers, Arbor builds products that detect and mitigate distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and provide network traffic analytics. Its portfolio includes Arbor Sightline (formerly Peakflow SP) for service-provider-scale monitoring, analytics and mitigation orchestration; Arbor Edge Defense (AED) as an inline stateless perimeter appliance; the Arbor Threat Mitigation System (TMS); Arbor Cloud managed scrubbing (16 global scrubbing centers, 15+ Tbps); and Arbor Spectrum/Insight for advanced threat analytics. Arbor exposes programmatic control primarily through the Sightline "SP REST API" (a JSON:API-compliant interface rooted at /api/sp/ on the appliance) and the Edge Defense Manager (EDM) API, with first-party client tooling published on GitHub and PyPI.

## Kin Score — 19.6 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 19.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 12.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 15.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 30.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 2.7 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (2)

- **Arbor Sightline SP REST API** — JSON:API-compliant REST API for NETSCOUT Arbor Sightline (formerly SP/Peakflow), fully discoverable from the root URL /api/sp/. Exposes network traffic data, DDoS alerts, manage...
- **Arbor Edge Defense Manager (EDM) API** — REST API for NETSCOUT Arbor Edge Defense Manager (EDM) covering device management, alert and threat viewing (DDoS alerts, threats), traffic analysis, Contextual Threat Intellige...

## Security (3)

- **Arbor Networks Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Arbor Networks Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Arbor Networks Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, PCI DSS, GDPR

## Tags

Company, DDoS Protection, Network Security, Cybersecurity, Threat Mitigation, Network Visibility, DDoS, Security

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/arbor-networks/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.