Protection Against HTTP Flood Attacks in Web Firewalls

Protection Against HTTP Flood Attacks in Web Firewalls

1. Overview of HTTP Flood Attacks An HTTP flood attack is a type of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack where the attacker overwhelms the target server with a large number of forged HTTP requests (such as GET/POST), exhausting server resources (like connection count, CPU, memory) and preventing legitimate users from accessing the service. Unlike … Read more