DDoS attacks exhaust a target's bandwidth, connections or compute with massive spoofed or botnet traffic, blocking legitimate users.

Hardware-level protection usually sits at the datacenter edge, scrubbing traffic at line rate with dedicated chips: real-time stateful detection and blocking of UDP reflection/amplification (NTP/DNS/Memcached), SYN/ACK floods and connection-exhaustion attacks, dropping spoofed-source reflection traffic at the source.

Combined with behavioral fingerprinting, botnet traffic can be identified within milliseconds; layer-7 (HTTP/HTTPS) attacks are rate-limited and challenged via a WAF. Crucially, all this scrubbing runs on dedicated hardware without consuming your service bandwidth or compute.

For live workloads, default-on baseline protection greatly reduces the risk of being knocked offline — the first line of defense for stable uptime.