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Fast-growing distributor to sell Allot's multiservice platform for improved customer service with enhanced visibility, policy control, and DDoS mitigation.

HOD HASHARON, Israel, July 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Allot Communications Ltd. (NASDAQ, TASE: ALLT), a leading global provider of innovative network intelligence and security solutions for service providers and enterprises worldwide, has struck an agreement with Lifeboat Distribution to supply the Allot Secure Service Gateway (SSG) unified solution to its North American Enterprise and ISP customers. The Allot SSG solution includes real-time network intelligence, application control, DDoS protection, and web security solutions across the entire network, providing end-to-end visibility of all network traffic and enhancing Quality of Service (QoS) and user Quality of Experience (QoE).

Lifeboat Distribution, an international value-added distributor with more than $417 million in sales in 2017, helps vendors recruit and build multinational solution provider networks, power their networks, and drive incremental sales revenues that complement existing sales channels. The company specializes in network and security as part of six core solution areas and have more than 250 vendors in their portfolio. The Allot SSG solution is availble to Lifeboat partners and customers today.

“We’re bringing Allot’s visibility, control, and secure solutions to the North American market to help combat the rise and size of cybersecurity threats, including DDoS attacks,” said Brian Gilbertson, Vice President and General Manager at Lifeboat Distribution. “North America is notoriously known for attracting cybercriminals and to this day remains a large target. Allot has demonstrated itself to be a world leader in this domain, and its SSG solution has huge potential in this market to better protect our Enterprise and ISP customers and partners, while giving them the opportunity to generate incremental revenue.”

Features of the Allot SSG include:

• Complete visibility and control, using real-time application-based traffic monitoring and analytics to deliver granular application level visibility;
• Advanced web security, detecting malware, phishing and other web threats before they impact application performance and user productivity; and
• Strong DDoS protection, combining application-based traffic management with behavioral based DDoS mitigation engine to provide rapid anomaly detection.

“Our relationship with Lifeboat is very timely – cybercrime is now one of the largest financial criminal activities worldwide,” said Aviel Sivan, Vice President Channel Development & Sales Operations at Allot. “With more reliance on connectivity, cybercrime will only get worse. Our granular DPI technology ensures robust protection against a rapidly evolving DDoS threat landscape and offers a new level of network bandwidth intelligence, giving resellers an opportunity to improve security posture and overall customer satisfaction.”