Rolling With The Punches: Shifting Attack Tactics & Dropping Packets Faster & Cheaper At The Edge

On its 8th birthday in 2017, Cloudflare announced free unmetered DDoS Protection for all its plans. The company has been protecting over 26 million Internet properties from various types of attacks. Recently, it observed a decline in the proportion of L3/L4 DDoS attacks that exceed a rate of 30 Gbps. It also noticed an increase in smaller, more localized attacks and highly distributed L7 HTTP DDoS attacks. To tackle these challenges, Cloudflare developed new systems like dosd and IP Jails to detect and mitigate attacks faster and more efficiently. The company has made these new protections available by default at no additional charge for all its customers across all plans.