What is DDoS protection?

DDoS protection (Distributed Denial of Service protection) refers to measures and tools that help prevent or mitigate attacks aimed at overwhelming a network, service, or website with traffic, rendering it unavailable to legitimate users. In a DDoS attack, the attacker floods the target system with a massive amount of data from multiple sources, which can lead to system crashes, slowdowns, or total service disruption. DDoS protection works by detecting, filtering, and blocking malicious traffic before it reaches the target system, ensuring that only legitimate requests can access the service.