DDoS Protection
What is DDoS protection?
DDoS refers to Distributed Denial of Service. DDoS protection solutions provide continuous, 24/7 monitoring of data traffic across multiple network points, automatically activating defense protocols when an attack is detected. These systems leverage a combination of automated intelligence and manual oversight to quickly identify and mitigate threats before they impact operations. Given the scale of modern attacks, often launched via extensive botnets, robust protection requires a high-capacity, globally distributed infrastructure. This is achieved through strategically located scrubbing centers, which filter out malicious traffic, ensuring it never reaches the target system, maintaining uptime, performance, and security.
What is a DDoS attack?
The primary goal of a DDoS attacker is to overwhelm a website or online service, rendering it inaccessible or serving as a diversion for a more targeted breach. The impact varies by business size and industry but often includes significant downtime, data breaches, substantial financial losses, and increased costs due to excessive bandwidth consumption. Just as critical is the long-term damage to brand reputation.
Traditional defenses like individual routers or firewalls are typically insufficient against sophisticated DDoS attacks and can themselves become compromised. The scale and frequency of these attacks are escalating, driven by increasingly large botnets targeting all facets of digital infrastructure. At our end, we witness multiple DDoS attempts each month on the systems protected by our DDoS Protection solution—highlighting the ongoing and growing threat landscape.
