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Discover more tech articles and guides on cybersecurity, media delivery, edge computing, and content delivery network (CDN).

Security

DDoS

Learn About DDoS

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a network attack that aims to force a website, computer, or online service offline.

ACK Flood

Amplified DDoS Attacks

Application Layer DDoS Attacks

Application Layer Security

CLDAP Reflection DDoS Attack

Denial of Service (DoS)

Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS)

Fork Bomb Attack (Rabbit Virus)

HTTP Flood DDoS Attacks

Memcached Amplification DDoS Attack

Memcached DDoS Attack

NTP Amplification DDoS Attack

Null Connection Flood Attack

Protocol DDoS Attacks

Smurf DDoS attack

SSDP Amplification DDoS Attack

SSL Flood and SSL Renegotiation Attacks

SSL/TLS Exhaustion DDoS Attacks

TCP Data Flood

Transparent Proxy

Understanding Volumetric DDoS Attacks: Scale, Impact, and Defense

What Are SYN Flood DDoS Attacks?

What Is a DNS Amplification Attack?

What is a LAND Attack?

What Is a UDP Flood DDoS Attack?

WAF

Learn About WAF

A WAF (web application firewall) protects web applications by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between a web application and the internet.

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)

Backdoor

Broken Object Level Authorization

Clickjacking

Command Injection

Cookie Poisoning

Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Dictionary Attacks

Injections

Malware Types

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Services

NoSQL Injection

OWASP Top 10

Remote Access Trojan

Remote File Inclusion (RFI)

SQL Injection (SQLi)

Web Shell

Web Skimming

What Is a Phishing Attack?

What is Ransomware?

What Is Spear Phishing?

XXE (XML External Entity)

Bots

Learn About Bot Protection

Bot protection safeguards your website or application from malicious bots, preventing data theft or compromise.

Anti-Bot Tools

Bot Attacks: Navigating Today’s Automated Threat Landscape

Bot Detection

Bot Management

Bot Mitigation

Bot Network

Botnet

Botnet Attacks

Brute Force Attacks

Credential Stuffing

Credit Card Cracking

Credit Card Stuffing (Carding)

Data Scraping

Scraping

Web Scraping

What Are Traffic Bots?

API

Learn About API Protection

API protection secures and safeguards Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) from unauthorized access, misuse, or attacks.

Account Takeover

API Abuse

API Performance

API Security

API Security Risks

API Testing

REST API

Shadow API

What Are API Attacks?

What Is a Zero-Day Attack?

What is an API?

What Is API Sprawl?

Zero Trust

Learn About Zero Trust

Zero Trust enables enterprises to establish a security strategy that is safe, efficient, and easy to use in a hybrid networking environment.

Cloud Platform

Hybrid Cloud Security

Private Cloud

Public Cloud

SD-WAN

What Are Zero Trust Networks?

What Is Hybrid Cloud?

What Is Multicloud?

What Is Remote Work Security?

What Is Zero Trust Networking?

Cyber Security

Learn About Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity can defend internet-connected devices and services from malicious attacks by hackers, spammers, and cybercriminals.

ARP Spoofing

Attack Vector

Buffer Overflow

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Attack

Data Breach

Data Encryption

Data Lakes

Data Leakage Protection (DLP)

Data Security

Disaster Recovery Solutions

DNS Protection

Domain Generation Algorithms

Domain Name Server (DNS) Hijacking

Enterprise Application Security

Failover Solutions

HTML Injection

HTTP Verb Tampering

Lateral Movement

Man in the Browser (MitB)

Man in the Middle (MitM)

Secure Internet Gateway

Segmented Network

Sensitive Data Exposure (Data Leakage)

Service Mesh

Slowloris DDoS Attack

Two Factor Authentication (2FA)

WAAP (Web Application and API Protection)

Web Application Attack

Edge Computing

Edge Computing

Learn About Edge Computing

Edge computing is a distributed computing model that processes data closer to where it’s being generated.

Auto Scaling

Big Data

Cloud Databases

Cloud Infrastructure

Cloud-Native Applications

Distributed Cloud

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Virtual Machine

Virtual Private Server (VPS)

What Is Edge Computing?

Media Delivery

Media Delivery

Learn About Media Delivery

Media Delivery refers to the process of delivering video content, such as on-demand videos, live broadcasts to end-users over the internet.

Images and Resolutions

Media Streaming

Network Latency

Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)

Round Trip Time (RTT)

Video Streaming

VOD

What Is a Media Server?

Content Delivery Network

CDN

Learn About CDN

A content delivery network (CDN) is a group of interconnected servers that cache and deliver internet content.

Advanced Compression

Anycast

Application Acceleration

Application Acceleration

Application Delivery

Application Delivery Controller

CDN (Content Delivery Network)

CDN and SSL/TLS

CDN Services

Cloud CDN

Cloud Migration

Control Plane

DNS Load Balancing

DNS Servers

DNS Traffic Management

Domain Name System (DNS)

HTTP & HTTPS

HTTP/2

Intelligent Compression

Load Balancing

Packet Switching

Packets

Ports

Prefetching

Reverse Proxy

Route Optimization

SSL Offloading

Time To Live (TTL)

WAN Acceleration

What Are QUIC and HTTP/3?

What is Cache

What Is DNS?