Keeping our control plane alive when the data plane is on fire
keeping our control plane alive when the data plane is on fire sounds like a narrow topic. It turns out to touch almost every part of how an edge network behaves under…
keeping our control plane alive when the data plane is on fire sounds like a narrow topic. It turns out to touch almost every part of how an edge network behaves under…
login endpoint flood against a electronics retail platform in North America, peaking at 194.8 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.675 seconds.
credential stuffing against a online payments platform in the Nordics, peaking at 933.8 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.490 seconds.
CLDAP reflection against a developer platform platform in the Benelux, peaking at 158.6 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.129 seconds.
search endpoint flood against a tax authority portal platform in Western Europe, peaking at 630.0 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.704 seconds.
SYN flood against a healthcare portal platform in Iberia, peaking at 83.1 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.582 seconds.
Rolled out to all points of presence on 1 March 2026. No action is required. Managed WAF: 17 new signatures […]
cache-busting query flood against a electronics retail platform in the Nordics, peaking at 623.0 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.577 seconds.
GRE flood against a news publisher platform in Western Europe, peaking at 8.0 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.659 seconds.
We get asked about reading a Deflecto incident report more than almost anything else, so here is the long answer.Testing in production, safelyEvery rule starts in log mode. We replay the previous…
GRE flood against a healthcare portal platform in Latin America, peaking at 100.6 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.794 seconds.
SYN flood against a crypto exchange platform in Latin America, peaking at 58.3 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.315 seconds.