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Managed rulesets

The DDoS Attack Protection managed rulesets provide comprehensive protection against a variety of DDoS attacks across L3/4 (network layer) and L7 (application layer) of the OSI model.

The available managed rulesets are:

  • HTTP DDoS Attack Protection

    • This ruleset includes rules to detect and mitigate DDoS attacks over HTTP and HTTPS.
  • Network-layer DDoS Attack Protection

    • This ruleset includes rules to detect and mitigate DDoS attacks on L3/4 of the OSI model such as UDP floods, SYN-ACK reflection attacks, SYN Floods, and DNS floods.