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DDoS protection: how to answer it in a security questionnaire

Usually asked as: “How do you protect against DDoS attacks?”

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What is DDoS protection?

A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack floods a service with traffic from many sources to make it unavailable. DDoS protection absorbs or filters that traffic, usually at a CDN or cloud edge, before it reaches the application. It is often combined with rate limiting.

What the buyer is really asking

Name the layer that absorbs volumetric attacks, usually your CDN or cloud provider. Say whether you have application-layer rate limits on top. That is a complete answer for most SaaS products.

Other ways buyers ask it

Every one of these wants the same answer:

  • “How do you protect against DDoS attacks?”
  • “Do you use a DDoS mitigation service?”
  • “What happens to service availability during a DDoS attack?”

Evidence to have ready

  • CDN or DDoS protection service configuration
  • Rate limiting settings

How Tyrvar answers this

Tyrvar treats every wording above as one question. You write the answer once, attach the evidence, and revisit it when your setup changes. Each buyer gets that approved answer no matter how their questionnaire words it. If you have not answered it yet, Tyrvar flags the question for you and does not make something up. Try it on your own questionnaire.

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