Tag: Mitigation

1. Introduction DDoS protection for businesses is usually treated as a “bandwidth problem”, and that simplification is why so many websites go down every year. A distributed denial-of-service attack is not a network problem: it is a design, provider and response problem. Meanwhile, the numbers keep growing: Cloudflare mitigated 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024, 53% more than the previous year, and the historic record was set on Halloween 2024 with 5.6 Tbps generated by around 13,000 Mirai IoT devices. In this article we cover DDoS protection for businesses from start to finish following the denial-of-service chapter of the author’s …