According to a survey on DDoS defense conducted by analyst firm IDC, more than 50% of IT security decision makers admitted that their enterprises suffered at least 10 DDoS attacks in the past year. Since DDoS-as-a-Service (DaaS) is now cheap, it is easier than ever for malicious actors to launch an attack, and the technical barriers to entry are lower. What is the most effective way to defend against DDoS attacks? Today brings F5 distributed cloud service solutions, from which we can find the answer.
Cloud-Based DDoS Protection
In order to protect customers from DDoS attacks, the F5 Distributed Cloud Platform efficiently operates a global security network in which Points of Presence (PoPs) deployed to Tier 1 IXCs are interconnected with each other through dedicated terabyte redundant lines and the backbone network. Distributed cloud PoP can provide powerful cloud network infrastructure protection, including DDoS protection, layer 3 firewall and anomaly detection, which is an industry-leading and effective way to defend against DDoS attacks.
F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP provides DDoS mitigation and advanced security services to defend against L3-L7+ attacks for enterprises and hosting/service providers. Our SaaS-based service provides a single pane of glass across connectivity, network and security services to simplify operations. Customers can use BGP-based traffic redirection to F5's distributed cloud global network to augment their existing investments in on-premises DDoS and security appliances, or they can subscribe to our IP transit and L3 VPN network.
Main advantages of DDoS protection solution
The solution combines on-premises defenses with distributed cloud-based DDoS protection to provide robust control against targeted network and application-layer attacks. When the local device cannot handle all attacks, this solution can be adopted in the case of operating multiple IP transmission services and large-scale DDoS attack protection, and it is a fully recognized and effective way to defend against DDoS attacks. If the volume attack exceeds the capacity of the local device or Internet link, the customer team can activate the evasion function through API calls or directly in the distributed cloud portal, and then the distributed cloud will quickly announce the attacked IP prefix and implement the evasion within 60 seconds . Washed traffic is received from the distributed cloud via direct BGP peering or GRE tunnels.
Since it is a very effective way to defend against DDoS attacks, I have to mention the technical support provided by F5. F5 Distributed Cloud WAAP Managed Services (Distributed Cloud WAAP Managed Services) allows F5 users to directly obtain support from the F5 Security Operation Center (F5 SOC). F5 Security Operation Center experts have rich experience and professional skills and can help users manage WAF, Bot defense and DDoS protection, truly create a safer digital world for enterprises.