DDoS Skills
How to Configure Rate Limits for Effective DDoS Mitigation
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 ...
What To Do When You’re Under a DDoS Attack
DDoS protection gaps usually become visible when there is the least room to investigate them: during an active attack. Traffic volumes rise, services begin to degrade, and the response team has to ...
Why Your Rate Limits Fail Under Distributed DDoS Attacks
There is often a significant gap between what security teams believe their DDoS protections are doing and how those protections behave during a real attack. Rate limiting is one of the most ...
How We Run DDoS Simulation Tests for Banks
As DDoS attacks continue to grow in sophistication and target high-value financial infrastructure, banks can no longer rely solely on vendor assurances or static configurations. They need proof. DDoS simulation testing provides ...
How to Detect and Mitigate Hit and Run DDoS Attacks
Most DDoS attacks are short in duration. According to Cloudflare, 92% of layer 3/4 attacks and 75% of HTTP DDoS attacks in Q2 2025,ended within 10 minutes. A subset of these are ...
Building an Effective DDoS Mitigation Strategy That Works
Every organization’s DDoS mitigation strategy should reflect its unique architecture, defense technologies, and business priorities. Yet, after conducting more than 1,500 DDoS attack simulations and consulting engagements with companies of all sizes, ...
7 Ways to Maximize the Value of DDoS Testing
These days, there are plenty of ways to run DDoS simulation testing and make sure you’re protected against attacks. You can do it on your own using commercial software or open-source tools—whatever ...
How to Know When a DDoS Attack is on Its Way
Gusest post by Eran Atias The element of surprise is a core principle of war in many nations around the world. According to the UK Defense Doctrine, it is the “consequence of ...
Large File Download: A Sneak DDoS Attack
Your website most definitely has files that can be exploited by hostile adversaries to take the site down without you even noticing that it’s happening – until it is too late. What ...
Securing Elections Against DDoS Attacks
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks rose significantly in the past year, with politically motivated incidents being part of this upward trend. For example, Sweden’s election authority was hit with three DDoS ...
