DDoS Protection Powered by WAF
DDoS attacks can completely paralyze your websites and applications, leading to customer dissatisfaction and significant financial losses. Our DDoS Protection service is an effective solution against all types of attacks, including TCP/SYN flood, ensuring your business remains operational.
Our solution integrates seamlessly with your existing IaaS infrastructure on the Cloud4Y platform. No data migration, complex configurations, software installation, or additional hardware is required.
How DDoS Protection Works
Cloud4Y provides two layers of defense to protect your websites and applications from DDoS attacks:
1. Standard Protection: Network-Level Defense
Our protection modules filter incoming traffic at the network protocol level, allowing only legitimate requests to pass through and preventing channel overload.
Dedicated Protected IPs: You receive a dedicated IP address or a cluster of IPs from a secured subnet.
Traffic Scrubbing: All incoming traffic to your dedicated IP is accepted and filtered.
Clean Traffic Delivery: Only filtered, legitimate traffic is forwarded to your servers.
2. Advanced Protection: Web Application Firewall (WAF)
The Application Layer Firewall (WAF) analyzes and cleans traffic at the application protocol level (HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, SIP, etc.), understanding the specific context of your application.
This is the ultimate solution for web application security, providing robust L7 protection.
This solution helps you meet PCI DSS security requirements, mitigates threats to web applications, and prevents data breaches and manipulation of critical corporate data.
It also ensures the protection of your customers' information.
Furthermore, our protection reduces the risk of your infrastructure being hijacked to attack other entities.
Key Benefits of Cloud4Y's Anti-DDoS Solution
- Cost-Effective: Choose the protection tier that fits your specific needs and budget.
- Scalable: Our solution is built to handle and mitigate multiple DDoS attacks simultaneously.
- Reliable: A fail-safe system of filters successfully blocks malicious attack traffic.
- Continuous Monitoring: We provide 24/7/365 monitoring to ensure constant vigilance.
- Expertise. Cloud4Y has extensive experience with virtual infrastructure, giving us the deep knowledge needed to secure your cloud resources effectively.
Compare DDoS Protection Plans
Normal Plan
Dedicated IP Address
Option to connect WAF
L7 Attack Reports
Support for 3rd-party SSL certificates
Legal entity contract (if required)
Premium IP Address
Blacklist/Whitelist: Up to 5 rules
Load Balancing: Up to 2 servers
26,880 RUB/month
Price is excl. VAT
Medium Plan
Includes all Normal Plan features, plus:
Custom Filtering Rules
Cache Purging by Mask
High Traffic Processing Priority
API Integration
Geo-Blocking Capability
Blacklist/Whitelist: Up to 30 rules
Load Balancing: Up to 5 servers
64,960 RUB/month
Price is excl. VAT
Premium Plan
Includes all Medium Plan features, plus:
Protection for 5 Domains
Bot Mitigation Module
Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Traffic Anomaly Notifications
Blacklist/Whitelist: Up to 50 rules
Load Balancing: Up to 10 servers
107,520 RUB/month
Price is excl. VAT
Enterprise Plan
Includes all Premium Plan features, plus:
Protection for 10 Domains
Unlimited: Geo-Blocking & WAF Usage
Option to protect your own IP networks
Ideal for IP-TV services
Highest Traffic Processing Priority
Role-Based Account Management
Mobile Alerts
Option for BGP-based Protection
Custom Block Page
Blacklist/Whitelist: Up to 100 rules
Unlimited Load Balancing Servers
Expert Support
268,800 RUB/month
Price is excl. VAT
FAQ
A DDoS attack typically unfolds in two key stages:
- Botnet Recruitment: An attacker first assembles a network of compromised computers and devices (a botnet). This distributed network allows them to generate an attack of massive scale.
- Resource Saturation: The botnet is then directed to send a flood of requests to the target. The volume of this malicious traffic overwhelms the server's performance and network bandwidth, causing the web resource to crash or become unresponsive.
DDoS attacks can target various layers of the OSI model, each with its own protocols and functions. Common attack vectors include:
- Volumetric Attacks (Layers 3 & 4): These attacks target the network and transport layers, consuming bandwidth with massive traffic floods (e.g., UDP floods, ICMP floods).
- Protocol Attacks (Layers 3 & 4): These exhaust the resources of network infrastructure like servers or firewalls (e.g., SYN floods, Ping of Death).
- Application Layer Attacks (Layer 7): These target the application layer itself, disrupting specific functions of web applications (e.g., HTTP floods, attacks on DNS servers). These are often more sophisticated and harder to detect.
DDoS attacks are generally categorized by their method and target layer:
- Network Layer DDoS Attacks: These include flood-based attacks (like synchronized SYN floods) and reflection attacks (such as UDP floods) that aim to saturate your bandwidth and infrastructure resources.
- Application Layer DDoS Attacks: These high-level attacks target the application's functionality (e.g., HTTP/HTTPS floods). They are designed to crash the application servers by mimicking legitimate user traffic, making them highly effective at causing service disruption.
A robust DDoS mitigation strategy involves a multi-layered approach:
- Proactive Monitoring & Patching: Conduct systematic software monitoring to identify vulnerabilities and perform regular firmware updates to minimize security gaps.
- Resource Scaling & Distribution: Increase server capacity and distribute resources geographically to handle sudden traffic spikes.
- Incident Response Planning: Develop and practice an incident response checklist and maintain clear communication channels with your service provider for rapid traffic filtering.
- Specialized DDoS Protection Services: Employ a dedicated DDoS protection solution that can automatically detect and filter out malicious traffic before it reaches your infrastructure. This includes techniques like rate limiting, network-level traffic filtering, and cloud-based load distribution.
The impact of a successful DDoS attack can be severe and multifaceted:
- Service Downtime: Complete or partial unavailability of your web resource, leading to direct operational disruption.
- Financial Losses: Revenue loss due to downtime, coupled with the costs of mitigation and recovery efforts.
- Reputational Damage: Erosion of customer trust and brand reputation if availability and security cannot be guaranteed.
- Data Breach and Security Risks: DDoS attacks can be used as a smokescreen to distract your security team while attackers attempt to steal data or infiltrate your systems.
- Ransom and Extortion: Attackers may use the DDoS attack for ransom, demanding payment to stop the assault.
- Legal and Compliance Repercussions: If the attack leads to a data breach, it may result in violations of data protection laws and regulatory fines.
- Loss of Customer Confidence: Persistent availability issues can drive customers to competitors, resulting in long-term business loss.
DDoS protection operates by continuously monitoring incoming traffic and filtering out malicious requests before they can overwhelm your resources. This is often delivered via a cloud-based scrubbing model, eliminating the need for any specialized on-premises hardware. A comprehensive DDoS protection service typically includes customizable traffic monitoring and filtering rules, backed by a dedicated team of security experts with hands-on experience in mitigating cyberattacks.
The cost of DDoS protection services varies based on the level of security, the provider, and the required resources. Typical service tiers include:
- Basic Protection: Ideal for small to medium businesses.
- Advanced Protection: For enterprises with higher traffic volumes.
- Premium Protection: Designed for mission-critical applications.
The final price is influenced by key factors such as your expected traffic volume, the sophistication of the attack vectors you need to defend against, the chosen service provider, and the overall complexity of your IT environment.
You can recognize a potential DDoS attack by several key indicators:
- A sudden, unexpected surge in traffic to your website or application.
- Severely degraded performance or timeouts, making your service slow or unresponsive.
- A high number of connection requests originating from a single IP address or a narrow range of IPs.
- An abnormal amount of non-standard or malformed requests that don't resemble legitimate user behavior.
- A sharp increase in server errors, such as HTTP 500 or 503 status codes.
- Unusual spikes in database load or application errors recorded in your server logs.
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) plays a crucial role in a multi-layered DDoS protection strategy. By distributing traffic across a global network of servers, a CDN can absorb and disperse attack traffic, preventing it from concentrating on and overwhelming your origin server. This is particularly effective against volumetric attacks and for protecting websites that rely heavily on static content, as the CDN can cache and serve this content, filtering out malicious GET requests at the edge.
