A financial services firm is experiencing a sophisticated DoS attack on their DNS servers using...

Cloud-based DDoS mitigation services provide upstream traffic scrubbing, detecting and filtering high-volume attacks such as DNS amplification and HTTP floods before the traffic reaches the victim’s network. These services use distributed infrastructures capable of handling multi-vector attacks that surpass the capacity of traditional on-premises firewalls and IDS. Traffic scrubbing centers distinguish legitimate traffic from malicious traffic, allowing normal operations to continue without service disruption.