Qrator Labs' Unique Technologies for the Fastest and Most Reliable Network DDoS Protection on the Market

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) service attack is an illicit effort to disrupt the regular traffic flow to a designated server, service, or network by inundating it with an overwhelming volume of internet traffic. Attackers leverage numerous compromised computer systems to generate attack traffic. By inundating the victim with an excess of network packets, the attacker can disrupt legitimate users' or systems' access, causing denial-of-service. DDoS attacks commonly target websites, web applications, and other online services reliant on the availability of their services for proper operation.

Botnet DDoS attacks utilize interconnected networks of numerous machines to flood the server with an overwhelming volume of traffic, exceeding its capacity. These networks comprise compromised computers and various devices, including IoT devices, infected with malware, enabling remote control by malicious actors. These compromised devices, referred to as bots or zombies, collectively form a botnet. Once a botnet is established, the attacker can orchestrate an attack by remotely controlling each bot within the network. The botnet instructs each bot to send requests to the target's IP address. This barrage of requests has the potential to overload the server or network, resulting in a denial-of-service situation for legitimate traffic.

IP DDoS protection involves employing a set of tools and techniques to safeguard networks and systems against DDoS attacks or mitigate their detrimental effects. The process of successful IP DDoS protection involves routing all incoming traffic through a scrubbing center where traffic is filtered using behavioral, heuristic, and signature algorithms. Legitimate traffic is separated from malicious traffic, permitting only user traffic to reach the protected application. By implementing IP 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. IP 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. Explore more about Qrator.AntiDDoS solution - a proprietary geo-distributed network that ensures availability and protection from DDoS attacks.

Cyber protection, especially advanced DDoS protection, is crucial for organizations that heavily rely on their online presence for business operations, as even a brief period of downtime can lead to substantial financial losses. Businesses of all scales - whether small and medium-sized enterprises (SMBs) or large corporations - can derive immense benefits from implementing a robust DDoS protection solution, as the expense of being unprepared far exceeds the cost of prevention. The demand for DDoS mitigation services is particularly high in industries such as finance, e-commerce, media, education, tourism, gaming, IT services, and various others.

Appliances installed on-premises for DDoS service attack protection are directly integrated into customer data centers, alongside networking equipment like routers, firewalls, and servers. This approach offers the advantage of complete infrastructure control, facilitating easy updates, modifications, additions, or removals to the DDoS protection system as needed. However, many organizations encounter budgetary concerns when considering such a DDoS mitigation solution. The cost of a DDoS mitigation appliance can range from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Furthermore, there are often additional expenses for support, maintenance, and dedicated staff required to manage the equipment, impacting the overall total cost of ownership (TCO). Additionally, the DDoS mitigation capacity of an on-premise solution is constrained by the installed hardware and available channel, meaning a high-volume attack can saturate a customer's network before the on-premises device can scrub the attack traffic.In contrast, Always-On cloud DDoS mitigation provides continuous and uninterrupted cloud-based protection against DDoS attacks. Cloud-based solutions typically offer network capacities in the range of terabits per second, with bandwidth that can be horizontally scaled without additional investments. These solutions eliminate the need for continuous 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.Utilizing a cloud-based DDoS mitigation solution offers numerous advantages, including reduced costs and faster deployment times. It eliminates the need for capital expenditures (CapEx) associated with purchasing appliances and relying on legacy architectures. Regarding connecting to cloud-based DDoS-mitigation solutions, the process is straightforward. Multiple connection options, including DNS and BGP, are available, with the latter allowing protection of every piece of infrastructure against any attack. Additionally, customers can 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 capable of executing repetitive tasks. These bots can be categorized based on their intent: some are beneficial, some are malicious, and some fall into a "grey" area. Beneficial bots provide significant value to businesses by facilitating essential operations such as web content indexing, uptime monitoring, and data analytics. However, malicious bots, employed by cybercriminals, pose escalating threats through activities like data theft, competitive parsing, brute-force hacking, and conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. These actions can lead to substantial financial and reputational damages for businesses. To combat malicious bots, organizations should adopt a multi-layered approach that includes waf bot detection and mitigation techniques such as fingerprinting, and to a lesser extent, behavioral analysis. However, other methods like filtering by access control lists (ACLs), user agents, and rate-limiting have demonstrated shortcomings. Explore more about the Qrator.AntiBot solution, which safeguards websites and APIs against automated bot attacks and provides visibility and control over human, beneficial bot, and malicious bot traffic without impacting the user experience.

Qrator Labs aids numerous clients worldwide in safeguarding against financial losses and reputational risks posed by DDoS cyber attacks. Offering an extensive array of solutions for web filtering and network attack protection, Qrator Labs empowers both small and large businesses to shield their applications from all forms of DDoS attacks, irrespective of their bandwidth or complexity. Through Qrator Labs solutions, clients can rest assured that their IT infrastructure will remain accessible to end users 24/7, thereby fostering customer loyalty and enhancing their business reputation.

Qrator Labs possesses an exclusive geo-distributed filtering network utilizing a unified BGP Anycast architecture, dedicated to delivering dependable, low-latency protection for IT infrastructure against various cyber threats that could potentially lead to network disruptions. Our filtering network spans across 15 points of presence globally, boasting analysis and filtering bandwidth exceeding 4 Tbps. Situated at strategic global Internet traffic hubs, our filtering centers are interconnected with transcontinental Tier 1 providers and prominent regional backbone Internet providers. This ensures exceptional connectivity across North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and North Africa. Qrator Labs' protection operates continuously, providing an almost zero false positive rate. This enables our filtering nodes to promptly detect traffic anomalies for each web resource individually and automatically respond to any irregularities, ensuring uninterrupted uptime for our customers' web resources 24/7. This capability allows us to guarantee the highest SLA for our clients' web infrastructure availability. Explore more about Qrator Labs' network security and cyber security solutions.