Cloud-only distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) protection providers have been available for some time, but as services have become more mission-critical with less tolerance for downtime – and application-layer DDoS attacks have also become more complex – cloud-only solutions are not enough.
Research and experience have proved that a multilayered DDoS defense strategy is the only holistic approach for protecting against modern DDoS threats. The analyst community has for a few years voiced strong support for a multilayered DDoS defense strategy backed by continuous threat intelligence. Some aspects of today’s targeted complex attacks require on-premises components. In fact, because of the elusiveness of some attack types with regard to cloud solutions, on-premises purpose-built DDoS protection devices should be considered the foundation for a network DDoS protection posture.
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