Stopping DDoS Attacks with the Power of SASE and Cloud Security

DDoS attacks are on the rise. They bring disruptions, swamp networks, and block critical applications from being accessed. As companies adopt hybrid work, their attack surfaces grow, providing new attack surfaces. Old security appliances are unable to cope with sophisticated, high-volume attacks. What’s the solution? Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and cloud security combined.

SASE unifies security with networking within a cloud-native architecture, securing applications and users wherever they are located. Combined with cloud-based DDoS protection, it provides real-time, scalable defence against cyber attacks. Here’s how technologies combine to end DDoS attacks.

The Modern DDoS Threat Landscape

DDoS attacks overwhelm networks with too much traffic, clogging them up or bringing them down completely. Attackers victimize VPNs, remote desktops, cloud applications, and web applications—crucial to hybrid workforces. The following are different forms of the attacks:

Volumetric Attacks – Overwhelming bandwidth with immense traffic.

Protocol Attacks – Strike protocol vulnerabilities.

Application Layer Attacks – Target certain services such as login gates or APIs.

Hybrid work exposes more. Employees are reaching from various locations and devices, making it more difficult to enforce centralized security. Businesses require dynamic, cloud-based security to remain strong.

How SASE Prevents DDoS Attacks

SASE is a cloud-first security framework. It places security in front of users, applications, and data, and provides a unified set of security functions. This way, it prevents DDoS attacks from taking place:

1. Cloud-Native DDoS Protection

On being attacked, SASE solutions used cloud infrastructure to block and throw away DDoS attacks before they reached any internal networks. Attacks are usually rejected while business traffic stays up, as the cloud firewall checks the incoming traffic in real-time.

2. Zero Trust Architecture

VPN solutions have no trustworthiness. SASE is Zero Trust compliant and thus authenticates all users and devices seeking entry into the enterprise. This helps to reduce vulnerability if ever an attack takes place.

3. Intelligent Traffic Routing

SASE provides management for traffic routing through secure cloud gateways and avoids congestion. Thus, if they are subject to attack through certain designated entry points, traffic can be routed to ensure availability.

4. Integrated Web Application Protection

Web apps would be under various forms of attack through DDoS attacks. SASE comes with web Application Firewalls (WAFs) that are concerned with traffic management, filtering out malicious requests while assisting legitimate users. 

5. Scalability and Adaptive Defense

In-network security appliances cannot help when faced with volumetric attacks. Cloud-native SASE can be dynamically scaled without incurring service costs or disruptions when processing enormous traffic bursts.

Cloud Security in the DDoS Security Landscape

Cloud security offering supports SASE in DDoS security, as well. Here is how they help:

1. Cloud-Based Firewalls and DDoS Mitigation Services

Leading cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud offer DDoS protection that is native to the cloud-they identify and counter threats before those threats can affect the service. These include AWS Shield, Azure DDoS Protection, and Google Cloud Armor.

2. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

A CDN distributes traffic across various servers around the world, reducing the impact of DDoS attacks. CDNs absorb tons of traffic and ensure availability for mission-critical applications.

3. AI-Based Threat Detection

AI-based analytics detect traffic in real-time, tagging and deflecting threats at times faster than human-triggered interventions.

4. Redundancy Across Multiple Clouds

App hosting across multiple clouds delivers redundancy whereby when attacked in one locale, traffic routes away and keeps services online.

Conclusion

Cyberattacks come in waves and never stop changing their shape, with DDoS attacks only becoming more sophisticated. Companies require an elastic, adaptive security architecture that will safeguard their hybrid workforce without sacrificing performance. SASE and cloud security provide the answer—enabling real-time threat detection, smart traffic management, and cloud-native uptime.

With these technologies, companies can provide secure, reliable access to mission-critical apps and data wherever their employees may be.