DDoS Testing and Attack Simulation

DDoS testing is a security test: it measures whether malicious traffic is recognized and filtered by your protection layers and how your response process performs. Stress testing aims to find an application's performance and capacity limits under legitimate user load.

• Volumetric attacks: UDP and reflection-style traffic aimed at saturating bandwidth.
• Protocol attacks: Traffic such as SYN floods aimed at exhausting connection tables on network devices.
• Application-layer (L7) attacks: HTTP/HTTPS request floods, expensive queries and slow-connection techniques.

By its nature, DDoS testing can cause service disruption. Risk management is therefore an integral part of every test.

• Written authorization: Signed confirmation that you own the IPs, domains and services in scope.
• Provider notification: Your ISP, DDoS protection provider, data center and cloud provider are informed in advance and approvals are obtained where required.
• Maintenance window: Tests run in a pre-agreed window with the lowest business impact.
• Gradual ramp-up: Traffic starts low and increases only after checks at defined thresholds.
• Immediate stop: Named contacts on both sides and a single-command stop procedure.

1. Scope and target thresholds are defined and the protection architecture is reviewed.
2. Authorization and provider notifications are completed.
3. Scenarios run gradually within the maintenance window, in real-time contact with your monitoring team.
4. Detection time, filtering success and service availability are measured for each scenario.
5. Report: Effectiveness of protection layers, bottlenecks and improvement recommendations.

The report covers detection and mitigation time per scenario, service availability, bottlenecks in protection layers and recommendations for thresholds and rules.

It suits organizations in sectors where downtime directly costs revenue or reputation, such as banking, payments, e-commerce, government and gaming, as well as companies switching to a new DDoS protection service.