Defending consumer web properties against modern DDoS attacks

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If you own, create, or maintain online services and web portals, you’re probably aware of the dramatic upswing in DDoS attacks on your domains. AI has democratized tooling not just for us but for threat actors as well. DDoS in this era has extended from simple bandwidth saturation to sophisticated, application-layer abuse. Defending against this activity now requires system-level design, beyond just the typical network-level filtering.

As botnets continue to expand their footprint and evade identification, it is important for us to take a step back, assess the situation, and take a defense-in-depth approach to increase our resilience against this class of disruption. Protect your cloud workloads with Azure Cloud Security DDoS activity across Bing and other online services at Microsoft has seen a large uptick in the past five to six years.