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As your business gains traction, your success will inevitably bring its share of malicious actors who will try everything to breach your systems and considerably slow down your operations. One such threat are distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks whereby the perpetrator floods a server with high network traffic loads coming from multiple sources, effectively disrupting the service and preventing legitimate users from accessing it. Startups and SMEs are particularly exposed because they seldom have the resources to prepare for the unexpected and the impact of something seen as unlikely i