DDoS Protection

Imperva DDoS protection defends against volumetric, protocol-based, and Layer 7 attacks, ensuring fast mitigation and business continuity with a 3-second SLA.

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Comprehensive DDoS mitigation for Layer 3, 4, and 7 attacks

DDoS attacks can disrupt operations, slow performance, and lead to costly downtime. Without fast mitigation and proactive defense, organizations risk losing revenue and facing significant recovery costs during an attack. Imperva helps ensure your business stays online and protected.

  • Ensure business continuity
    Every second counts when defending against a DDoS attack. Imperva prevents downtime fast and effective mitigation for all DDoS attacks and a guaranteed 3-second mitigation SLA for Layers 3 and 4 DDoS attacks.
  • Reduce costs
    Every hour of downtime costs organizations tens of thousands of dollars in lost business and recovery costs. Imperva ensures business continuity with no performance impact.
  • Optimize performance
    When under DDoS attack increased bandwidth usage slows performance drives up costs. Imperva gives you peace of mind that attack traffic will be blocked at the edge meaning no need for extra bandwidth.

 

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What is DDoS Protection

DDoS attacks are increasingly sophisticated and often automated, leading to significant financial and reputational damage from even brief downtime. Imperva DDoS Protection provides fast, scalable defense against advanced attacks, ensuring your operations remain available. Whether the threat targets the application layer, network layer, individual IPs, or DNS Servers, Imperva swiftly mitigates disruptions, safeguarding your infrastructure and enabling quick recovery.

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"Amazing DDoS Solution. Easy to configure and maintain, this service is amazing, recommended"

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DDoS mitigation for unmatched performance

Layer 7 DDoS attacks

    Imperva provides a consistently fast time to mitigation for all types of DDoS attacks, ensuring your network stays protected with minimal downtime. For added assurance, we offer a guaranteed SLA of 3 seconds or less for DDoS attacks targeting Layers 3 and 4, delivering industry-leading protection against volumetric and protocol-based threats.

    Imperva’s Application Security platform offers seamless self-onboarding and management, allowing users to easily configure and adjust DDoS protection settings through a self-service portal. Once set up, the platform’s fully-automated DDoS protection neutralizes threats without manual intervention, ensuring continuous defense even in on-demand mode. This combination streamlines management and guarantees round-the-clock protection, minimizing risks and maximizing uptime.

    Imperva’s extensive global network ensures 95% of the world experiences sub-50 millisecond latency, delivering rapid, reliable performance even during DDoS attacks. Utilizing advanced Anycast routing and real-time capacity management, traffic is dynamically optimized across the most efficient paths, ensuring minimal latency and enhanced network speed. This system provides consistent, responsive service while preventing congestion and maintaining smooth operations during peak demand or attacks, making it ideal for international businesses requiring fast, efficient data transmission.

    Imperva’s DDoS Protection is fully ISP-agnostic, meaning it works seamlessly with any Internet Service Provider. This flexibility allows you to implement a unified, robust defense strategy across all ISPs without compatibility concerns, simplifying deployment and enhancing network resilience.

    Ensure protection against the most sophisticated DDoS attacks

    Looking for DDoS protection? Imperva offers advanced, multi-layered DDoS protection with three robust options to defend against the rising number, size, and complexity of DDoS attacks. Ensure your business is secure with comprehensive DDoS mitigation strategies.

      Protect websites from volumetric DDoS attacks

      Imperva DDoS Protection for Websites works alongside our cloud web application firewall (WAF) to block attacks and malicious bots. By routing all HTTP/S traffic through our secure proxy via a simple DNS change, we mask your origin server’s IP and filter out DDoS traffic, ensuring legitimate requests get through without delays. With 13 Tbps of global scrubbing capacity and fast Time to Mitigation (TTM), we provide seamless, always-on protection against any attack. No CAPTCHAs, no latency—just fast, reliable defense. Integrates with Imperva’s full Application Security platform for comprehensive protection.

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      Mitigate network DDoS attacks in 3 seconds or less

      Imperva DDoS Protection for Networks shields entire infrastructures with 13 Tbps of multi-terabit scrubbing capacity and high-capacity packet processing, instantly mitigating even the largest DDoS attacks—typically within 1 second. It protects against volumetric and multi-vector Layer 3, 4, ensuring constant protection for any network protocol under attack and keeping your network resilient. Flexible deployment options include GRE tunnels, Cross Connects, GRE tunnels, and virtual Cross Connects such as Equinix Fabric Cloud Exchange, as well as with always-on or on-demand protection. service . Flow-based monitoring and automatic or manual switchover provide seamless control, ensuring constant protection for any network protocol under attack.

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      Defend IPs with Layer 3 and 4 DDoS protection

      Imperva DDoS Protection for Individual IPs is designed to safeguard specific IPs from network layer 3 and 4 attacks. This service, tailored for non-HTTP assets or assets that due to regulation cannot be inspected by a cloud based WAF, is particularly beneficial if your applications are hosted on a single server or if you do not have control over the entire network infrastructure.

      Imperva IP Protection allows organizations to direct all ingress traffic and egress traffic for a specific IP to the Imperva network. An IP from the Imperva IP ranges is provided as an alternative destination for the protected server, ensuring that all traffic to that server is routed through Imperva. This service leverages Imperva’s multi-Terabit network capacity and packet processing capabilities to absorb and mitigate the largest and most sophisticated DDoS attacks.

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      By filtering malicious traffic, Imperva prevented service disruption and allowed us to maintain operations, uninterrupted, despite the day-long attack, helping to ensure customer access to power."
      Nathan Lindbergh Caldeira Head of Cybersecurity Operations SA Power Networks

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