Despite advances in bot management and behavioral analysis, rate limiting remains one of the most reliable DDoS mitigation controls. We say it in nearly every customer engagement, and we mean it literally. When we walk into an environment after a real attack, the difference between a clean mitigation and an ... Read More

A newly discovered denial-of-service (DoS) technique dubbed HTTP/2 Bomb has drawn significant attention across the security industry due to its ability to exhaust server memory and render web services unavailable within seconds. The attack was publicly disclosed in June 2026 by California-based security research company Calif. According to the researchers, ... Read More

Most DDoS test reports get treated like a security scan. A list of attack vectors, each one tagged as blocked or not blocked, and a verdict that reads like a grade. Pass means safe. Fail means fix it. That framing misses what actually matters. The same attack vector can be ... Read More

  Key takeaways  DDoS protection refers to the tools and architecture deployed to stop attacks (CDNs, WAFs, scrubbing centers, firewall rules) operating continuously in the traffic path DDoS testing is a controlled simulation that validates whether those tools actually work under real-world attack conditions 68% of protection faults found in ... Read More

Every time you load a webpage, send an email, or stream a video, the Domain Name System (DNS) silently performs its critical duty, translating easy-to-read names into complex numerical IP addresses. This fundamental function makes it the Achilles’ heel of the modern internet. As an essential service that all users ... Read More

An origin server DDoS attack (sometimes referred to as direct-to-origin attack) is a technique used to bypass cloud-based DDoS protections – such as CDNs and WAFs – by targeting the origin server environment directly. Because the malicious traffic avoids the protective proxy layer, it hits the origin server unfiltered, potentially ... Read More