Proactive DDoS Countermeasures
Proactive Distributed Denial-of-Service attack Countermeasures
Definition:
Proactive DDoS countermeasures focus on early detection, automated response, and traffic control before saturation occurs.
Modern Proactive anti-DDoS tools can offer filtering web traffic inside (WAF filtering level) or outside of Cloud Service provider (ISP/Edge Router level).
Benefits:
- Faster Detection and Response. Flow-based tools (FastNetMon) detect attacks in sub-seconds
- Prevents Auto-scaling overreaction (unexpected cloud costs)
- Multi-layer Protection (L3–L7)
- Automated DDoS Mitigation
Tools and Products for Vanilla DDoS Protection:
1. AWS CloudWatch:
- Website
- Description: Monitoring and observability service that can act as a detection and orchestration layer for application-level (L7) and infrastructure-level anomalies.
2. FastNetMon:
- Website
- Description: Real-time DDoS detection (sub-second)
3. ExaBGP:
- Website
- Description: Used with FastNetMon to announce blackhole routes / Redirect DDoS traffic
4. AWS Shield (Advanced):
- Website
- Description: Always-on L3/L4 protection. Advanced tier adds adaptive DDoS mitigation and support.
5. Google Cloud Armor:
- Website
- Description: Google’s global infrastructure (always-on protection)
Related Terms to Vanilla DDoS Protection:
These related terms are often used in conjunction with Vanilla DDoS Protection.
Prerequisites
Before conducting Proactive DDoS Protection, it is essential to have Vanilla DDoS Protection.
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