Cloudflare has concocted a solution to tackle distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks based around a backbone protocol ...

Companies invest heavily in DDoS mitigation, yet outages still happen—often at the worst possible moment. The problem is ...

In the security profession, controls are one of the main tools we use to reduce risk. In doing so, we leverage a mix of preventive and detective controls. As the name suggests, preventive controls are ...

Millions of individuals worldwide spend countless hours each year engaged in online gaming, propelling the industry’s growth in recent years. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) assaults, in ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, today announced the general availability of Fastly DDoS Protection to provide automatic protection ...

LONDON, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Corero Network Security (AIM: CNS) (OTCQX: DDOSF), leader in real-time DDoS protection and service availability, today released its 2026 Threat Intelligence ...

On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this?

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks come in many shapes and sizes, as do the myths surrounding them. These myths can center on motivations, DDoS attack vectors and techniques, mitigation ...

“Did you read about the 300Gbs DDoS attack last week? We must test our protection against an attack of that size.” Indeed, DDoS simulation testing, which uses a controlled DDoS attack, is the best ...

Let’s assume you already have a DDoS protection solution installed on premises. You have even run DDoS testing, identified potential weak links, and tweaked your DDoS protection configuration to the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Cloudflare has mitigated the biggest distributed denial of service ...