This article explains how Presspage protects your Newsroom against DDoS attacks.
As with any public-facing website, there's always a small risk that your Newsroom is on the receiving end of a DDoS attack. DDoS stands for Distributed Denial-of-Service. This kind of attack floods a website, or in this case a Newsroom, with so much fake traffic that the server is overloaded and real visitors can't access it.
To mitigate this risk, we have the following controls in place:
- We are cloud-hosted and have implemented auto-scaling to increase processing capacity when required. This means we can handle extra legitimate traffic in an automated way, including sudden spikes such as a press release gaining wide attention.
- We apply rate-limiting to incoming requests.
- We apply invalid request filtering and rejection in the perimeter components of our platform infrastructure. This means we detect malicious requests and filter them out at the network level.
- We serve as many requests as possible from cache. This lightens the load on the server and improves page speed.
- We facilitate customers using a CDN to offload processing from our platform, which also helps improve loading times.
- We have load-oriented alerting in place and manually block traffic in the rare cases where the measures above aren't sufficient.
The above measures make sure that your newsroom is accessible for well-meaning visitors, while blocking malicious requests from bad actors.