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DDoS protection explained for business owners

What a distributed denial-of-service attack is, why small businesses are targets, and how clean internet stops it.

September 30, 20265 min read

A DDoS attack floods your internet connection or server with junk traffic until legitimate users cannot get through. Attacks are cheap to launch and increasingly target small and mid-sized businesses.

Clean internet service filters traffic upstream, inside the provider network, before it ever reaches your link. Legitimate traffic passes through while attack traffic is scrubbed.

Because filtering happens in the network, you do not need to buy or manage any additional hardware.

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