Fastly has announced the general availability of Fastly DDoS Protection, designed to provide automatic protection from Layer 7 and other application-level DDoS attacks.

According to the company, organisations can enable Fastly DDoS Protection to automatically shield their applications and APIs against highly disruptive data and query floods.

Keeping sites up and running

Fastly’s DDoS Protection leverages the powerful, proven techniques behind protecting Fastly’s global network from massive DDoS attacks to offer a protection product directly to customers.

Modern DDoS attacks can bring even the most-visited, highest-scale websites down.

With every minute of downtime now hitting organisations’ top and bottom-lines harder – especially as they undergo digital transformation initiatives – software engineering and cybersecurity teams are accountable for ensuring their sites stay up and running despite attacker provocations.

Protecting against DDoS traditionally involves manual, high-effort investments that decay in efficacy as attackers evolve their approaches and do not fit into modern software delivery workflows.

Engineering teams need a modern security solution that automatically upholds reliability and resilience in the face of disruptive and distributed threats, without needing to be attack experts.

Mitigating large attacks

By simply clicking a button to turn on Fastly DDoS Protection, organisations can apply Fastly’s proactive, proprietary techniques to their services and gain defences validated over many years against some of the world’s largest DDoS attacks, the company reports.

“Application-level DDoS attacks often resemble legitimate traffic, which is why they are so difficult to detect and protect against,” said John Grady, Principal Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.

“Now more than ever, organisations need DDoS protection that is simple to deploy and manage, able to detect stealthy attacks and scalable to mitigate large attacks, all while helping to maintain cloud cost-certainty.”

The impact of disruptive attacks has never been greater as more organisations, across all industries, modernise towards software-driven operations.

No matter the size of the enterprise or their software architecture, applications and APIs running on the public internet are susceptible to application-level DDoS attacks by motivated attackers that can slow their services, inflate cloud expenses, or, worse, take business-critical and revenue-generating systems offline. 

A long history

“Fastly has a long history of sustaining resilience against DDoS attacks, from our 353 gbps network capacity to our innovative detection techniques that block malicious traffic from impacting our platform,” said Kip Compton, Chief Product Officer at Fastly.

“We’re excited to offer customers the same powerful protection against application-layer attacks to apply to their own software services, giving them a dynamic, proactive and automated anti-DDoS solution that they can enable with a single click.

“We’ve engineered Fastly DDoS Protection to detect, evaluate and immediately react to DDoS attacks without any manual intervention or reactive effort required.

“That way, customers gain the confidence that their software services will stay up and healthy no matter what app avalanches attackers attempt.” 

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