Learn About Deploying Layer 3 and 4 DDoS Prevention on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are serious cybercrimes committed by attackers that flood company servers with an overwhelming amount of incoming traffic. This overwhelming amount of traffic comes from myriad sources and geolocations, preventing users from accessing the company’s services and sites.
Because any resource accessible via a public address can be a potential target of a DDoS attack, such attacks can disrupt business operations for seconds, minutes, or even hours.
As many organizations transition to using cloud services, it’s important to understand what is and isn’t covered by your Cloud provider. Some providers offer DDoS protection either as a chargeable service, or as a core part of their Cloud offering. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides layer 3 and 4 attack mitigation as a core part of its cloud offering.
While layer 7 DDoS is another concern, most organizations can already visualize, understand, and mitigate those threats with existing OCI services. Until now, OCI didn’t provide organizational controls, or visibility into layer 3 and layer 4 DDoS attacks.
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As part of the next generation of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, all Oracle data centers include provide automated DDoS attack detection and mitigation of high volume layer 3 and 4 DDoS attacks as part of its core offering. This helps ensure the availability of Oracle network resources even when under sustained attack.