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IBM Cloud Internet Services brings market-leading security and performance to your external web content and internet applications before they reach the cloud.

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Leveraging IBM Cloud Internet Services for Maximum Reliability, Resiliency, and Availability

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Performance and reliability Elevate apps by improving mobile experiences, ensuring app availability and accelerating app performance. Explore the performance white paper

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Key feature
High-performant DDoS protection Keep websites, apps and APIs highly available and performant. Thwart DDoS attacks that disrupt traffic from your servers, services or networks. Application-layer attacks generate web pages in response to HTTP requests. Protocol attacks consume server capacity to render the target inaccessible. Volumetric attacks create congestion and consume available bandwidth.
The app protection you need
IBM Cloud Internet Services can help guard internet-facing applications from DDoS attacks, data theft and bot attacks. Explore the blog post
How it’s used VPC isolated workloads

Deploy isolated workloads across multiple locations and zones.

Secure multiregion Kubernetes clusters

Deploy an application on multiple Kubernetes clusters.

Global and high availability applications

Deploy an internet-facing application.

Client stories Movius

Clients prove satisfied with multiline mobility engagement, using the IBM Cloud® platform.

Active International

Staff is freed from hours of analyzing data to focus on strategic decision-making with IBM Cloud.

Daimler Trucks North America

Developers steer toward bigger demand for IT applications development with IBM® UrbanCode® Deploy.

Featured resources Turnkey DDoS protection

Get a powerful set of capabilities to mitigate volumetric, protocol and application attacks. 

Web application firewall (WAF)

Set up WAF for application-layer security (Layer 7) while traffic from source networks is blocked.

Global load balancer (GLB)

Set up load balancing and reduce the distance content travels by routing appropriately. 

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Frequently asked questions

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of internet traffic. DDoS attacks achieve effectiveness by utilizing multiple compromised computer systems as sources of attack traffic.

A DDoS attack involves an attacker gaining control of a network of online machines. Computers and other machines are infected with malware, turning each one into a bot. The attacker then has remote control over the group of bots (called a botnet). The attacker can then direct the machines by sending updated instructions to each bot using a remote control.

Different DDoS attack vectors target varying components of a network connection. A network connection on the internet is composed of many different components or “layers.” Like building a house, each step in the model has a different purpose. The OSI model is a conceptual framework used to describe network connectivity in seven distinct layers.

Mitigating a multi-vector DDoS attack requires various strategies to counter different trajectories. The more complex the attack, the more difficult to separate from normal traffic – the goal of the attacker is to “blend in” as much as possible. To overcome a complex attempt at disruption, a layered solution will give the greatest benefit. 

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A web application firewall (WAF) helps protect web applications by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the internet. By deploying a WAF in front of a web application, a shield is placed between the web application and the internet. A WAF protects the server from exposure by having clients pass through the WAF before reaching the server.

A WAF that operates based on a blacklist (negative security model) protects against known attacks. Conversely, a WAF based on a whitelist (positive security model) only admits traffic that has been pre-approved. Both blacklists and whitelists have their advantages and drawbacks, which is why many WAFs offer a hybrid security model, which implements both.

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A content delivery network (CDN) refers to a geographically distributed group of servers, working together to provide fast delivery of internet content. A CDN quickly transfers assets needed for loading internet content. The popularity of CDN services continues to grow, and today most web traffic is served through CDNs.

To improve speed and connectivity, a CDN will place servers at exchange points between different networks. These internet exchange points (IXPs) are the primary locations where different internet providers connect to provide each other access to traffic originating on their different networks.

For websites loading content, users drop off quickly as a site slows down. The globally distributed nature of a CDN means reduced distance between users and website resources. Instead of having to connect to wherever the origin server of a website may live, a CDN lets users connect to a geographically closer data center. Less travel time means faster service.

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The Domain Name System (DNS) is the phonebook of the internet. People access information online through domain names, like nytimes.com or espn.com. Web browsers interact through Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. DNS translates domain names to IP addresses so browsers can load internet resources.

DNS resolution involves converting a host name (such as www.ibm.com) into a computer-friendly IP address (such as 192.168.1.1). Each device on the internet is assigned an IP address that’s used to find the device. When loading a web page, what a user types into their browser’s address field is translated into the IP address needed to locate that web page.

The DNS resolver is the first stop in the DNS lookup and is responsible for dealing with the user who made the initial request. The resolver starts the sequence of queries that ultimately leads to a URL being translated into the necessary IP address

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