“Controlling outbound traffic is critical - one of the most significant control gaps there is, and continues to be the cause for abuse of APIs and the sensitive traffic that uses them,” Steffen said. Therefore, Edgio has added the ability for security rules to scan outbound traffic as well, preventing data and code leakage. Outbound rule customizer and proxy detectionĮdgio has also added a set of improvements to its WAAP, which include advanced rule customizer, outbound data leak prevention, proxy detection, enhanced configurability and regional code support for geopolitical compliance.Ĭonventionally, security rules are designed to inspect inbound requests to mitigate application attacks from the inside-in, lacking the outbound visibility. “Coupling DDoS scrubbing with edge/CDN-based DDoS protection ensures we provide 100% protection against all forms of DDoS attacks today,” Yew said. These are called direct-to-origin attacks.Įdgio’s new scrubbing capability promises protection at the source level against attacks from the non-web applications via a dedicated scrubbing capability that uses standard protocols such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and generic routing encapsulation ( GRE) tunnel for masking the original IP packets.
There are, however, other types of DDoS attacks that target the origin servers or IP addresses of a website or application, instead of targeting the front-end infrastructure or CDN. The attack uses multiple compromised devices, referred to as bots or zombies to effect simultaneous requests.
“When coupled with threat detection and API protection, Edgio’s solution will provide some interesting choices for customers dealing with continued DDoS attacks and API vulnerabilities.” Edgio’s scrubbing extends to origin serversĪ typical DDoS attack has an attacker holding a business’ system, website or network hostage by overwhelming it with a large volume of requests, making it unavailable to legitimate users. “Companies like Edgio are always working to push the bar forward with mitigating DDoS attacks, while the bad guys continue to advance their bot armies - both in complexity and in sheer numbers,” said Chris Steffen, research director at analyst and consulting firm Enterprise Management Associates.
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