You should know this fact that Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attacks create a huge burden for business owners and their businesses. DDoS attacks will not only attack your website but in addition to this, such attacks can harm your business’s reputation which will eventually be bad for your business and its future. DDoS protection can help you keep your online business protected from DDoS attacks. There are some strategies by which you can keep your online business safe and secure form DDoS attacks. Some of the strategies that you should use are enlisted below:

Switches

Switches are built with automatic control capacity, because of this feature switches can limit the data floods at system wide level simply by traffic shaping, TCP splicing or delayed binding, bogon filtering and deep pocket inspection. You should know that delayed binding gives the owner an edge as it allows the router to receive vital routing information about specific traffic simply by postponing the connection between the server and client. Network administrators can either use manufacturer default settings or can set these parameters on their own.

Router

You should know this fact that network engineers can configure a control list and can also set rate limiting ability manually. Because of such changes the router can avoid or prevent flooding of traffic or requests generated from a DDoS attack, which in turn keeps the network available and accessible to the core users.

IPS based systems

IPS systems can be signature based, stateful protocol analysis or statistical anomaly based. In case of signature based IPS system or detection the attack patterns which are well known are used widely to identify similar incoming pattern in order to prevent DDoS attacks. You should know that statistical anomaly based IPS system creates a baseline and responds in case if the characteristic or predefined baseline is flaunted. It is easy and efficient to use IPS systems to prevent DDoS attacks that have a signature. In case of such attacks the malicious contents that are revived triggers the system to take preventive actions to stop the passage of malicious data.

Sink holing and black holing

If you haven’t heard about sink holing then you should know that it means sending traffic to an IP which not only receives incoming traffic but in addition to that it filters the incoming traffic to remove the bad ones.