Infrastructure (Network & Session) Layer Attacks

Infrastructure layer (Layer 2 to 4) DoS attacks flood the network with unnecessary traffic until systems become unavailable. The LoadMaster network processing engine validates connections and checks for protocol correctness (header, URL, HTTP version, method) while proxying and protecting the Real Servers.

The LoadMaster can help mitigate the below categories of attacks via the:

  • Network processing engine
  • WAF engine and subscription rules
  • Whitelist/blacklists
  • High capacity connection ability
  • Content switching
  • SSL/TLS termination and SSL/TLS validation