Protect Against DDoS Attack

The frequency and strength of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is on the rise. Through the exploitation of millions of insecure Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, the creation of botnets waging highly distributed volumetric attacks is easier and more impactful than ever before. In addition to larger attack volumes, efforts are shifting from the network and transport layers to the application layer (layer 7). Application layer attacks are far more sophisticated, often requiring fewer resources to bring down a website or application, and can disrupt operations with even greater impact.

DDoS attacks disrupt normal business operations by degrading website and application performance and availability, sometimes knocking them offline completely. The average hourly cost of downtime due to an infrastructure failure is £50,000 per hour. Attacks of this nature likely lead to customer churn, brand degradation, and lost business.

Websites and applications require the resilience and intelligence of a scalable network to combat the biggest and newest attacks. Protecting against threats should not degrade performance caused by security induced latencies and security services must be easy to configure to eliminate misconfigurations, which introduce new vulnerabilities.

Be prepared with our DDoS attack prevention solutions

Defend against the largest attacks

We can place you within a network that is 15x bigger than the largest DDoS attack ever recorded. With 15 Tbps of capacity, it can can handle any modern distributed attack, including those targeting DNS infrastructure.

Shared Network Intelligence

With every new property, our partner network becomes smarter. The IP reputation database identifies and blocks new and evolving threats across all 7 million properties on the network.

No Performance Tradeoffs

Eliminate security induced latencies by integrating with included performance services, including CDN, smart routing, website optimisations, and the latest web standards.

Common types of attack

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection

DNS Flood

By disrupting DNS resolution, a DNS flood attack will make a website, API, or web application non-performant or completely unavailable.

UDP Amplification (Layer 3 & 4)

An attacker leverages the functionality of open DNS or NTP resolvers to overwhelm a target server or network with amplified request traffic, where the payload size is greater than the size of an originating request.

HTTP Flood (Layer 7)

HTTP flood attacks generate high volumes of HTTP, GET, or POST requests from multiple sources, targeting the application layer, causing service degradation or unavailability.

Layered Security Defense

Our layered security approach combines multiple security capabilities into one service. It prevents disruptions caused by bad traffic, while allowing good traffic through, keeping websites, applications and APIs highly available and performance.

Stay Online

Global Anycast network with 116+ data centres absorbs highly distributed attack traffic so customers stay online

Protect Origin Infrastructure

Detect and drop at the edge volumetric attacks: layer 3 and 4, DNS and layer 7.

Identify Anomalous Traffic

Fingerprint HTTP requests to protect sites against known and emerging botnets with automatic mitigation rules.

Anticipate Attacks

Shared intelligence across six million websites proactively blocks known bad signatures

Protect Applications with Control

Rate Limiting gives more granular control to block harder to detect application-layer attacks.

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