Learn about DDoS and DDoS Attack:
What is DDoS?
DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service or simply called "DDoS". DDoS is a malicious attempt or a cyber security attack on a server or on a network that disrupts the normal functioning of your service or website or servers network bandwidth, cpu cache, memory,...,etc.
What is a DDoS Attack?
DDoS attack is nothing more than to disrupt the normal transactions of businesses by infecting computers and other electronic hardware with malicious software or malware. Each infected device is called a bot. Each one of these infected bots works together with other bots in order to create a disruptive network called a botnet bot. These bots send packets into the files and disrupt the normal functioning of your systems. Botnets are created for a lot of different reasons, but they all have the same objective. Taking web resources like your website offline in order to deny your customers access.
How to Mitigate DDoS Attacks?
DDoS attacks can be mitigated and your site can stay online no matter the size, duration and complexity of the attack by integrating your service with Cloudflare. When DDoS attacks are aimed at your Internet property instead of your server becoming deluged with malicious traffic, Cloudflare stands in between your website and any attack traffic like a buffer instead of allowing the attack to overwhelm your website. Cloudflare filters and distributes the attack traffic across our global network of data centres using Anycast network. No matter the size of the attack Cloudflare advanced DDoS protection guarantees that your service stays up and runs smoothly.
How Cloudflare Protects Network Infrastructure from DDoS Attacks?
Protecting network infrastructure from DDoS attacks can be a challenge. Dose hardware has bandwidth limitation and costs a lot to maintain and backhauling traffic to special cloud based scrubbing centres adds troublesome latency. Cloudflare Magic Transit is different. It uses our entire anycast network which spans hundreds of global cities to detect and mitigate attacks at the network edge close to their source and route clean traffic over Cloudflare's low latency paths. For fast performance. The result is better security and performance for your network infrastructure.