DDoS resilience testing and mitigation
Controlled, authorized attack simulations that show what your defenses actually stop, and help you fix what they do not.
What the engagement covers.
Volumetric floods
UDP, SYN, and amplification-style traffic ramped in stages to measure where bandwidth, load balancers, or upstream scrubbing saturate.
Application-layer attacks
HTTP floods, slow-request attacks, and expensive-endpoint abuse that bypass volumetric protection and exhaust application servers.
Protocol and state exhaustion
Connection table, TLS handshake, and DNS resolver pressure that takes down services long before bandwidth is a problem.
Mitigation validation
Whether your CDN, WAF, rate limits, and auto-scaling engage as configured, how fast, and what legitimate traffic they drop.
Detection and response
Whether your team notices, how long it takes, and whether the runbook works under pressure.
How it runs.
Authorize
Written authorization from you, notice to your hosting, CDN, and transit providers, and agreement on targets, windows, and stop conditions.
Baseline
Normal traffic, latency, and error rates measured so we can see the exact point where service degrades.
Simulate
Traffic ramps in steps with a live kill switch. Every step is announced, monitored, and stopped the moment stop conditions are met.
Harden
Mitigation rules, rate limits, and scaling policies tuned with your team, then verified with a short follow-up run.
What you receive.
- Capacity report: exactly where and how each layer degraded
- Mitigation configuration changes, applied with your team
- Incident runbook for your on-call engineers
- Follow-up verification run and closure summary
Who it is for.
- Online retail, ticketing, and fintech ahead of a peak event
- SaaS platforms with uptime commitments in customer contracts
- Teams that have bought DDoS protection and never seen it engage
Questions about ddos resilience.
Is DDoS testing legal?
Yes, when it is run against systems you own or control, with written authorization and coordination with your hosting and CDN providers. We do not test third-party infrastructure and every run has a kill switch that stops traffic within seconds.
Will the test take our site down?
The point is to find the level at which it would. Traffic ramps in small steps and stops at the thresholds you set, so degradation is brief and controlled. Most clients schedule the run in a low-traffic window.
Do you also sell DDoS protection?
No. We are independent of any provider, which is why our findings about your CDN or scrubbing service are honest. We help you configure what you already have or choose what to buy.
Scope a ddos resilience engagement.
Tell us about the system and the deadline. You will get a fixed-price proposal after one scoping call.