1 888 99 FLARE | enterprise@cloudflare.com | www.cloudflare.com DDoS attack trends for Q1 2021 C LO U D FL A R E S EC U R IT Y I N S I G HTS2 1 888 99 FLARE | enterprise@cloudflare.com | www.cloudflare.com In March of 2021, we introduced our autonomous edge DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) protection system and explained how it is able to drop attacks at wire speed without impacting performance. It runs in our networks’ edge, analyzes traffic asynchronously to avoid impacting performance, and pushes mitigation rules in-line immediately once attacks are detected. All of this is done autonomously, i.e., without requiring centralized consensus. This report comprises DDoS insights and trends that are based on attacks that Cloudflare’s systems mitigated during the first quarter of 2

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