Bot, Botnet
Bot is a software robot designed for executing certain actions determined by algorithms or rules. Botnet stands for a "robot network".
95th Percentile
95th percentile is a widely used method to increase available bandwidth by 5% while staying within the selected payment plan.
MAC Address
A unique identifier of an individual network equipment unit, such as a NIC or Ethernet port, designating a sender or a recipient of an OSI network-level packet (frame). Usually MAC addresses are assigned by a manufacturer while producing equipment or components.
Smurf Attack
A Smurf attack is a type of DDoS attack that exploits the ICMP protocol and causes a stream of packets to the victim.
DoS (Denial-of-Service) Attack
DoS is an attack against a system aiming to cause it to stop providing a service.
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Web application firewall is designed to protect your web application from various types of attacks. WAF can be called “reverse-proxy” as it protects server’s data passing clients through itself before providing access to the resource.
Colocation
Colocation is a unique web hosting model in which a company rents physical space in a hosting provider's data center to house its own server hardware.
Data Center
Data center (DPC) is a multi-level storage for network and server equipment. Choosing a data center is based on the following points: reputation, reliability, location, etc.
VoIP Flood
A DoS attack, a variant of UDP flood implemented by sending large amounts of forged VoIP packets from a wide range of IP addresses to a VoIP server, usually used by a call center. As a result, the server wastes too much of its resources trying to handle the bogus requests. Due to some aspects of UDP protocol, a VoIP flood attack can be very hard to detect.
MS SQL Reflection DDoS Attack
An attack type that exploits vulnerabilities of the MC-SQLR protocol used for sending queries to Microsoft SQL Server. An overload of a victim’s link is achieved as a result of getting lists of all database instances stored on multiple public SQL servers (including those hosted by service and cloud providers), along with the information on how to connect to those instances. The data is provided in response to a stream of spoofed scripted requests containing the attacked node’s IP address, sent to those SQL servers.
