Having problems with DDoS attacks on your gameserver or services? Not with us.
Also known as protocol based or volumetric attacks. These attacks target vulnerabilities in network protocols (IP, ICMP). Bad actors will use this type of attack to sap your servers bandwidth and disrupt your interactions with services by flooding the infrastructure with huge amounts of traffic. This is what leads to the Denial of Service to legitimate users of your services.
L4 attacks target the transport layer of the OSI network model by exploiting vulnerabilities in the transport protocols (TCP/UDP). This can be achieved by sending large amounts of connection requests with spoofed IP addresses. SYN packets are also sent to initiate handshake requests but they are never completed leaving the server hanging. Floods of UDP requests also overwhelm the servers ability to process legitimate traffic.
Perhaps the most sophisticated, application layer attacks can be used by bad actors to steal data, take networks offline, disrupt businesses and extort funds from service owners. This is achieved, in part, by making HTTP requests that seem genuine, for example, to knock services offline by completely overwhelming them. This is difficult to defend against because this type of traffic appears to be genuine.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are malicious attempts to disrupt your services made by bad actors. Our services powered by Cosmic Guard work to prevent these issues.
DDoS can be a complicated issue, here is some information on some of the different types of attack.
Cosmic Guard Global Networks
We understand that running your services is important to you, whatever they are. We do our best to make this as easy as possible. All our customers benefit from:
Our DDos protection is provided by Cosmic Guard Global Networks. In the past we have used other providers but there were issues which forced us to hunt for a better supplier…and we found them!
Cosmic Provides:
Access to our Edge Firewall control panel gives you full control over your servers firewall. Think of it as any other firewall but with a simple GUI interface for ease of use. From this portal you can add game/service specific filters to better assist in filtering out problematic traffic from your services. This is not a requirement though, you can use our service in default mode and our mitigation will still do a fantastic job of protecting you.
As we are a Game Server oriented host lets use an example in this area. Lets say you have a FiveM server which has grown, gotten popular and as a side effect of this you’ve had to ban some players for trying to use cheats. This person then goes onto try and take their revenge against your server by starting a DDoS attack. This sort of attack could last minutes, hours, days or even weeks on and off. This can be incredbly disruptive for your community.
Hosting your server with us means you can use our Firewall control to lock down your server, only opening ports relevant to your game service. Further to this you can apply FiveM filters to the open ports to ensure only legitimate traffic passes.
Next you set up the notifications. Email and Discord webhook are available. You could set up a Discord notification to your community server to notify yourself, your community staff and even your playerbase about active DDoS attacks as and when they happen. This gives your community an extra level of security and transparency.
