How FjordStack kept its electronics retail online through tax filing season
FjordStack runs a electronics retail serving customers across the Middle East. Before Deflecto, attacks meant diverting traffic to a scrubbing […]
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Zero-downtime certificate rotation at the edge (part 2)
Over the last few months we have spent a lot of time on zero-downtime certificate rotation at the edge. This is what we learned.What actually happens during a floodThe first thing to…
Threat Bulletin 1441: login endpoint flood against a education platform platform in North America
login endpoint flood against a education platform platform in North America, peaking at 846.2 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.107 seconds.
Threat Bulletin 1429: carpet-bombing UDP flood against a ticketing platform in Southeast Asia
carpet-bombing UDP flood against a ticketing platform in Southeast Asia, peaking at 373.7 Gbps. Mitigated in 0.233 seconds.
GDPR and request logs: what we store and why
Here is a question we could not answer well a year ago: what really happens with gDPR and request logs: what we store and why? We can answer it now.What actually happens…
Threat Bulletin 1403: search endpoint flood against a online payments platform in North America
search endpoint flood against a online payments platform in North America, peaking at 467.1 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.402 seconds.
Threat Bulletin 1382: Slowloris against a municipal services platform in Latin America
Slowloris against a municipal services platform in Latin America, peaking at 181.8 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.842 seconds.
Threat Bulletin 1372: cache-busting query flood against a healthcare portal platform in the UK
cache-busting query flood against a healthcare portal platform in the UK, peaking at 349.6 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.185 seconds.
Introducing adaptive proof-of-work difficulty
This post is about introducing adaptive proof-of-work difficulty. It started, as most of our posts do, with an incident that did not go the way we expected.The numbersAcross the last quarter, 71%…
Threat Bulletin 1321: Slowloris against a electronics retail platform in the Middle East
Slowloris against a electronics retail platform in the Middle East, peaking at 188.9 million requests per second. Mitigated in 0.584 seconds.
Deflecto Edge 22.0.0 release notes
Rolled out to all points of presence on 15 March 2026. No action is required. API: new endpoint Android WebView. […]
Deflecto Edge 21.0.2 release notes
Rolled out to all points of presence on 1 March 2026. No action is required. Managed WAF: 17 new signatures […]