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Bot attacks are one of the most common threats you can expect to deal with as you build your site or service. One exposed attack vector can bring your e-commerce website offline in the middle of the holiday season.
But it’s not just about securing the network against external threats; performance optimization goes hand-in-hand to ensure that a small bottleneck doesn’t slow down the entire network. A suitable solution would need to actively monitor, engage, and neutralize threats, scan for existing vulnerabilities, adapt to emerging attack patterns, and keep the network in good health with intelligent caching, routing, and redundancy.
Trafficmind.com is a next-generation edge security platform designed for real-time threat mitigation, performance optimization, and network resilience. It’s a global edge network powered by Anycast and built to keep your websites, APIs, and services fast and secure.
The service takes a multi-layered approach, combining DDoS protection, advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF), bot management, threat intelligence, API protection, and CDN into one comprehensive solution.
As an edge-based solution, trafficmind.com positions servers close to the user’s geographical location. The global network of nodes lets it respond to user requests faster and control inbound traffic without increasing load on the origin server. It also optimizes delivery by caching static content, allowing for fast load times for users around the world.
The global edge network is also effective at absorbing incoming large-scale attacks at up to 4 Tbps with a sub-3ms average mitigation time.
Trafficmind combines behavioral analysis, threat intelligence feeds, and machine learning to scan incoming traffic. It processes this information at the edge in a matter of milliseconds, keeping potentially malicious streams away from your network, while ensuring that legitimate traffic passes through without friction.
If a piece of content can be served from the CDN platform, trafficmind.com will always prioritize that over requesting from the origin server.
Anycast directs user requests by determining the best and nearest available node. The “edge” architecture enables faster service because data is always served by the node that’s closest to the user’s geographical location to minimize latency, and Anycast is the logic that makes it happen.
It also provides a critical advantage for threat mitigation. Malicious traffic is routed to the nearest edge node and neutralized at the source. Furthermore, instead of overwhelming a single node, the attack volume is distributed across multiple points of presence (PoP), and failover protection ensures that traffic is rerouted to another healthy node if one node becomes overwhelmed or goes offline.
From Layer 7 to Layer 3 and 4, Trafficmind stops prominent attacks such as bot attacks, volumetric floods, and API abuse.
Here’s a quick overview of the various technologies working under the hood.
A WAF serves as a critical security feature that understands threats most specific to applications, so it can more accurately identify malicious payloads and exploits before they succeed.
At the Application Layer (L7), Trafficmind inspects HTTP/HTTPS traffic for common vulnerabilities, such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and remote code execution. It also references OWASP Top 10 for emerging threats to ensure full protection.
APIs are a common attack vector, given how they communicate with external sources and have direct access to sensitive data. Trafficmind enforces rate limiting and schema validation policies, and also monitors for unusual request sequences and inspects tokens, stopping attacks that seek to exploit APIs and exfiltrate data.
Protecting APIs is important for keeping uninterrupted access to trusted partners and ensuring that business-critical functionality remains available. Trafficmind.com also gives you visibility into application-specific metrics and granular control over security policies, so you always know who can access what data.
Trafficmind was designed to combine security with intelligent content delivery to ensure uninterrupted and high-speed access under all conditions.
Built-in redundancy and automatic failover guarantee stability by rerouting traffic away from busy and offline nodes.
Sub-3-seconds response time mitigates threats before they cause an issue.
Machine learning algorithms detect novel attack patterns to evolve mitigation responses.
The management feature analyzes traffic at the edge for scripted behavior before it reaches the protected infrastructure.
Bots are simple programs designed for specific tasks. One example is web scrapers that extract data from a target website. These bots try to mimic real user behaviour to stay undetected, but several factors, like known bot signatures, IP addresses associated with a subnet, and user agents, can give them away.
Trafficmind inspects all such elements paired with advanced device fingerprint techniques to analyze suspicious activities like rapid-fire login attempts or bulk API requests to more accurately identify bots. The service can then respond with graduated measures such as introducing CAPTCHA and applying rate limits, before finally blocking IP addresses.
Trafficmind simultaneously analyzes multiple data points in an effort to prevent false positives. Forget about legacy platforms that only evaluate IP reputation and apply rate limits; trafficmind.com goes much deeper and accounts for things like navigation behavior, session duration, device fingerprints, and HTTP header configurations. This holistic approach ensures that Trafficmind is blocking automation tools that are potentially using residential proxies instead of actual users.
An intelligent threat mitigation strategy recognizes that not all threats deserve the same level of response. Hence, trafficmind.com employs measures that are graduated based on severity and confidence. For example, it would introduce puzzle-solving for low-confidence activities instead of outright blocking access.
A user may be behind a VPN and navigating the website quickly enough to trigger suspicion. Similarly, search engine crawlers can also mimic automation tools. So, real-time risk assessment is necessary to keep the experience as frictionless as possible for real users.
Trafficmind enforces strict authentication and authorization checks on every API request. It validates tokens, API keys, and OAuth credentials to protect web applications from abuse.
Enforcing granular rate limits per user/IP puts a stop to malicious API calls that could exhaust resources, while schema checks ensure that violations of a predefined structure don’t take place. Some obvious patterns can be detected easily, like a single API key being used from multiple locations simultaneously, but more stealth exploits require deep packet inspection.
The API security layer operates at the edge without requiring application code changes or any extra integration steps by partners.
Trafficmind is an all-in-one cloud security solution that delivers comprehensive coverage without the complexity and performance trade-offs typically seen with other network defense solutions.
It brings together DDoS protection, WAF, bot management, API security, and CDN platform into a unified edge platform. But more than that, trafficmind.com is backed by a rapid response team that’s always available 24/7 to provide human and support during sophisticated attacks.
Businesses trust Trustmind because it provides clear SLAs, audit-ready reporting, and meets stringent compliance, such as SOC 2 Type II, PCI DSS, HIPAA, and GDPR standards.
Trafficmind offloads the security burden from your teams and infrastructure through a unified cloud security platform that works with any industry and scales easily. It’s an intelligent edge platform that mitigates threats that seek to disrupt services that can lead to customer dissatisfaction and loss of revenue.
Instead of segregated controls, you get a single dashboard that provides a real-time view of the network. Your teams enjoy a hands-off approach as the system works intelligently 24/7 to mitigate threats and adapt to deal with future threats.
It’s proven reliability that reduces the total cost of ownership and gives businesses confidence in automating security in an increasingly hostile cyber landscape.
