CDN Security Features
Discover how CDNs enhance security through DDoS protection, WAF integration, and SSL/TLS termination.
Boost Your Website's Defenses
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are well-known for speeding up content delivery, but they also act as a crucial first line of defense against various cyber threats. By sitting between your users and your origin server, CDNs can filter malicious traffic before it ever reaches your infrastructure.
This lesson explores how CDNs enhance your security posture.
DDoS Protection: Network Layer
One of the primary security benefits of a CDN is Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection. At the network layers (Layers 3 & 4), CDNs use their massive global infrastructure to absorb and filter large volumes of malicious traffic.
This prevents your origin server from being overwhelmed by flood attacks like SYN floods or UDP floods.