DDoS Protection Strategies: ISP Scrubbing, On-Premise Appliances, and Cloud Services
DDoS Protection Strategies: ISP Scrubbing, On-Premise Appliances, and Cloud Services A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack doesn’t need to compromise your systems. It just needs to make them unreachable. And unlike most security threats, the damage is instant and fully visible — your application stops working, customers can’t reach you, and revenue stops. What makes DDoS uniquely difficult is that the attack traffic looks legitimate at the packet level. Millions of valid TCP SYN packets, millions of valid DNS queries, millions of valid HTTP requests — all perfectly formed, all completely intentional. Your network processes them the same way it processes real traffic, and that’s exactly the problem. ...