DDoS Mitigation

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks overwhelm a target with traffic from multiple sources, making the service unavailable to legitimate users.

Types of DDoS Attacks

• Volumetric - Overwhelm bandwidth (UDP floods, amplification attacks)
• Protocol - Exploit protocol weaknesses (SYN floods, Ping of Death)
• Application layer - Target web application logic (HTTP floods, Slowloris)

Mitigation Strategies

• Use CDN and DDoS protection services (Cloudflare, AWS Shield)
• Implement rate limiting
• Use Anycast networking
• Scale infrastructure automatically
• Have an incident response plan for DDoS events