Qrator Labs’ Unique Technologies for Fastest Reliable Network Security on the Market

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming it with a flood of internet traffic. The attackers use multiple compromised computer systems as sources of attack traffic. By sending more network packets than the victim can process, the attacker can cause denial-of-service to legitimate users or systems. DDoS attacks are used to target websites, web applications, and other online services that rely on the availability of their services in order to function properly.

DDoS attacks involve interconnected networks of multiple machines to flood the server with a large amount of traffic, beyond its capacity. These networks comprise computers and various devices, including IoT devices, that have been compromised by malware, enabling remote control by malicious actors. These individual compromised devices are commonly referred to as bots or zombies, and a collection of these bots forms a botnet. 
 Once a botnet is established, the attacker gains the ability to orchestrate an attack by issuing remote commands to each bot within the network. 
 The botnet prompts each bot to send requests to the target's IP address. This barrage of requests has the potential to overwhelm the server or network, resulting in a denial-of-service situation for legitimate traffic.

DDoS mitigation encompasses the set of tools and techniques employed to safeguard networks and systems against DDoS attacks or minimize their detrimental effects. The process of successful DDoS mitigation means letting all incoming traffic pass through a scrubbing center where traffic is filtered using behavioral, heuristic and signature algorithms, and legitimate traffic is separated from malicious one permitting only user traffic reach the protected application.
 By implementing DDoS-specific protection organizations can effectively decrease their vulnerability to attacks, mitigating the risks associated with potential business disruptions and downtime. This proactive approach enables the defense mechanism to intercept and neutralize DDoS attacks while ensuring that legitimate visitors can continue accessing the company’s online services without interruption. DDoS protection acts as a barrier, preventing malicious traffic from reaching its intended target. As a result, the impact of the attack is significantly minimized, enabling uninterrupted business operations by allowing legitimate traffic to flow through as usual.


 Learn more about Qrator.AntiDDoS solution - a proprietary geo-distributed network that ensures availability and protection from DDoS attacks.

DDoS protection is especially important for organizations that rely on their online presence for business operations, as even a short period of downtime can result in significant financial losses. Organizations of all sizes - whether an SMB or a large corporation - can benefit from having a DDoS protection solution in place, as the cost of being unprepared far outweighs the cost of prevention. 

 DDoS mitigation services are especially demanded in such industries as finance, e-commerce, media, education, tourism, gaming, IT services, and many others.

Premise-based appliances for DDoS protection are installed directly at customer data centres, alongside other networking equipment like routers, firewalls and servers itself. This approach offers the advantage of complete control over the infrastructure, allowing for easy updates, modifications, additions, or removals to the DDoS protection system whenever needed. 

 However, many organizations have budgetary concerns when considering such a DDoS mitigation solution. The cost of a DDoS mitigation appliance can vary from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Additionally, there are often additional expenses for support, maintenance, and dedicated staff required to manage the equipment, which can impact the overall total cost of ownership (TCO). 

 Finally, DDoS mitigation capacity of an on-premise solution is limited by a hardware installed and, which is no less important, by an available channel which means that a large-volume attack can fill a customer's pipe even before the on-premises device gets a chance to “scrub” the attack traffic. 

 On the other hand, Always-On cloud DDoS mitigation provides continuous and uninterrupted cloud-based protection against DDoS attacks. Cloud-based solutions generally offer a network capacity of the order of terabits per second and their bandwidth can be horizontally scaled without additional investments. These solutions eliminate the need for constant involvement of qualified specialists and manual configurations to defend against complex attacks. Traffic filtration operates 24/7 at a fixed monthly cost, enabling organizations to allocate a specific budget for DDoS attack protection and have better control over IT expenses. 

 Using a cloud-based DDoS mitigation solution offers several advantages, including reduced costs and faster deployment time. It eliminates the need for capital expenditures (CapEx) associated with purchasing appliances and relying on legacy architectures. 

 When it comes to connecting to cloud-based DDoS-mitigation solutions, the process is quite simple. Multiple connection options, including DNS and BGP, are available with the latter allowing protection of every piece of infrastructure against any attack. Additionally, customers are allowed to configure rules for filtering out unwanted traffic and blocking malicious requests.

CDNs can effectively mitigate DDoS attacks going through the CDN. But initially, CDN wasn’t designed to provide security, and attacks directed at the organization’s public IP addresses or the origin servers can not be prevented by CDN-based protection.

 CDN speeds up your site and increases fault tolerance but doesn't provide guaranteed protection against powerful DDoS attacks and most DDoS vectors.

 Site optimization with CDN technologies should be used with a specialized DDoS protection service rather than instead of it.

 Learn more about Qrator.CDN - a global reliable content delivery network.

Bots are automated software programs that can perform automated or repetitive tasks. Bots can be classified by their intent: some bots are good, some bots are bad, and some are “grey” (or neutral).
 Good bots offer significant value to businesses, enabling essential operations like web content indexing, uptight monitoring, and data analytics. However, malicious bots, used by cybercriminals, pose increasing threats through activities like data theft, competitive parsing, bruteforce hacking, and carrying out distributed denial of service attacks. These actions can result in substantial financial and reputational damages to businesses. To protect against malicious bots, organizations should employ a multi-layered approach that includes bot detection and mitigation techniques such as fingerprinting, and to a lesser extent, behavioral analysis. However, other methods such as filtering by ACLs, user agents, and rate-limiting have shown their failure.

 Learn more about Qrator.AntiBot solution, which protects websites and APIs against automated bot attacks and gives visibility and control over human, good bot, and bad bot traffic without affecting the UX.

Qrator Labs assists a lot of clients around the globe in securing them from financial losses and reputational risks. Qrator Labs provides a wide range of solutions for web filtering, network attack protection allowing small and large businesses to protect their applications from all types of DDoS attacks, regardless of their bandwidth or complexity. With Qrator Labs solutions, clients can be confident that their IT infrastructure will be available to end users 24/7, thereby building their customer loyalty and boosting their business reputation.

Qrator Labs owns a unique geo-distributed filtering network based on a unified BGP Anycast architecture, a platform dedicated to providing reliable, low latency IT infrastructure protection against any cyber threats that could lead to network failure. Our filtering network consists of 15 points of presence across the globe with analysis and filtering bandwidth exceeding 4 Tbps.
 Our filtering centers are located at global Internet traffic concentration points, connected to transcontinental Tier 1 providers and leading regional backbone Internet providers. This allows for excellent connectivity in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and North Africa.
 Qrator Labs protection operates in Always on mode and provides a nearly zero false positive rate. This allows the filtering nodes to detect traffic anomalies for each web resource separately and instantly respond to any anomalies in automatic mode ensuring uptime of customers’ web resources 24/7 and enabling us guarantee the highest SLA for client’s web infrastructure availability. Learn more about Qrator Labs` solutions.