Preventing infrastructure abuse with Vercel Firewall

This post details Vercel's multi-layered security approach with the Vercel Firewall, highlighting its ability to block billions of suspicious TCP connections and HTTP requests weekly. It describes the mitigation of a 1.37 Tbps DDoS attack with no downtime, emphasizing the platform's adaptive defenses against evolving threats. The Vercel Firewall integrates Layer 4 and Layer 7 protections, leveraging application awareness from its framework-defined infrastructure for precise threat mitigation. It also introduces a new Firewall Rule template to block common AI bots.