Introducing Location-Aware DDoS Protection
Jul 11, 2022Omer Yoachimik, Julien Desgats

Summary
Introduces Location-Aware DDoS Protection, a new feature that leverages traffic origin (client country and region) and machine learning models to identify and mitigate DDoS attacks. It allows Enterprise customers subscribed to Advanced DDoS to customize sensitivity levels and enable the feature as an HTTP DDoS Managed rule, setting actions to Managed Challenge or Block.
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