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DDoS Protection Software

DDoS Protection

What is DDoS Protection Software?

DDoS protection prevents malicious traffic from reaching its target thus limiting the impact of the attack and continuing with normal traffic to get through for business as usual. DDoS protection thwarts cyber attacks allowing legitimate visitors and users of the site to access data as they usually would.

Common Features

  • Autonomous Mitigation
  • Packet Inspection
  • Resource Scaling
  • Attack Notifications
  • SIEM Integration
  • Threat Analytics
  • IP Address Quarantine/Blacklist
  • Machine Learning
  • Web Application Protection
  • Intelligent Defense Stack
  • Edge DNS
  • High Capacity Protection
  • Low False Positive Rate

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Top DDoS Protection Software 2024

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

Composite Score
9.2 /10
CX Score
9.4 /10

AWS Shield is a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. AWS Shield Advanced is a tailored protection program that identifies threats using exabyte-scale detection to aggregate data across AWS.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Altruistic

Products below are ineligible for awards due to insufficient recent reviews

OpenText Corporation

Webroot DNS Protection

Composite Score
8.0 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

Secure your DNS connection against cyberattacks, get total visibility into web usage, and enforce acceptable web usage policies to reduce security risk. Webroot DNS Protection is a fully cloud-based, secure, and resilient service takes just minutes to set up all the while protecting your DNS connection, network, and users from cyberattacks.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.9 /10
CX Score
7.8 /10

DefensePro provides automated DDoS protection from fast-moving, high-volume, encrypted or very-short-duration threats and is part of Radware’s attack mitigation solution. It defends against IoT-based, Burst, DNS and TLS/SSL attacks to secure organizations against emerging network multivector attacks, ransom DDoS campaigns, IoT botnets, phantom floods, and other types of cyberattacks.

Composite Score
7.8 /10
CX Score
8.0 /10

F5 NGINX provides a suite of products that together form the core of what organizations need to create apps and APIs with performance, reliability, security, and scale. F5 NGINX's portfolio of automation, security, performance, and insight capabilities empowers our customers to create, secure, and operate adaptive applications that reduce costs, improve operations, and better protect users.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
7.3 /10

The Nexusguard Managed DDoS Mitigation Platform (MX7000) is a powerful, versatile 'cloud-in-a-box' DDoS mitigation solution for CSPs dealing with the impacts brought about by cyberattacks, or wishing to add advanced cybersecurity capabilities to their product portfolio.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Less Caring
Fortinet

FortiDDoS

Composite Score
7.5 /10
CX Score
8.2 /10

In a landscape that sees an ever-evolving list of cyberattacks, DDoS attacks are among the most prominent. FortiDDoS Protection Solution defends enterprise data centers against DDoS attacks by leveraging an extensive collection of known DDoS methodologies, creating a multi-layered approach to mitigate attacks. It also analyzes the behavior of data to detect new attacks, allowing it to stop zero-day threats.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Reblaze Technologies Ltd.

Reblaze

Composite Score
7.3 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

Reblaze provides full-scope DoS and DDoS protection, defeating attacks across layers 3, 4, and 7: network, transport, and application. Reblaze provides cloud-based web security and protects against sophisticated attacks, exploits and other malicious activity targeted at your web site. Reblaze incorporates the best intrusion detection mechanisms in a single, unified and integrated platform, which automatically protects your website from the moment it is connected to the service.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Composite Score
6.9 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

DDoS Protector is part of Check Point’s Attack Mitigation Solution and is a winning, real-time, perimeter attack mitigation device that secures organizations against emerging network and applications threats. DDoS Protector protects the infrastructure against network and application downtime (or slow time), application vulnerability exploitation, malware spread, network anomalies, information theft and other types of attacks.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Akamai Technologies

Prolexic

Composite Score
6.7 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

Prolexic is purpose-built to stop DDoS attacks in the cloud, before they reach applications, data centers, and internet-facing infrastructure (public or private). For data center and hybrid infrastructure protection, Prolexic provides cloud-delivered mitigation across all ports and protocols to stop DDoS attacks before they become business-impacting events.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
Link11

Link11

Composite Score
6.5 /10
CX Score
7.1 /10

Link11 is an European IT security provider in the field of cyber-resilience. The global protection solutions of the Cloud Security Platform are fully automated, react in real-time and defend against all attacks, including unknown and new patterns, in under 10 seconds. Link11 offers the fastest mitigation (TTM) available on the market. To ensure cyber-resilience, web and infrastructure DDoS protection, bot mitigation, API protection, secure DNS, zero touch WAF, secure CDN, and threat intelligence services, among others, ensure holistic and cross-platform hardening of corporate networks and critical applications.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Under Delivered
  • Vendor's Interest First
  • Charges for Enhancements