Distributed Denial of Service Attack

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is a situation in which multiple compromised systems attack a single target with a flood of messages, shutting down access to the target system.

The F5 BIG-IP^® product family protects against denial of service attacks. Stringent signature recognition standards and deep packet inspection and filtering stop malicious attacks before they cost time and money.

F5 products that protect against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks:

• BIG-IP product family
• Application Security Manager

F5 solutions that protect against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks:

• Web Application Security Solutions