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Providers of Anti-DDoS services often offer to connect protection using the asymmetric scheme: only incoming traffic is filtered — the one that goes to the protected resources, and outgoing traffic is not considered at all. In a number of other situations, they use a symmetrical scheme when not only incoming, but also outgoing traffic or service information about it is analyzed.

It often happens that customers of DDoS protection services believe that just by connecting to these services they are fully protected. Unfortunately, it is not quite right: DDoS protection is not magic or a superpower, and in order for it to work effectively, the services themselves must have sufficient immunity against DDoS risks.

In this article, we’ll explore how to protect your website from DDoS attacks, including best practices for securing websites, browser-based server components, mobile applications, and services that communicate via HTTP/HTTPS APIs.

In this article we provide a brief guide that will help you improve the effectiveness of protecting networks and autonomous systems from DDoS attacks. It lists the aspects that should be taken into account and explains how to prevent DDoS attacks on a network effectively.

Although DDoS attacks are mainly carried out with bots, the initiators and coordinators of the attacks are humans. The nature of the attacks, their intensity and duration largely depend on their motivation and behaviors. In this article, we explain why hackers launch DDoS attacks and offer a few recommendations on how to stay safe.