

In March 2019, Cloudflare introduced Spectrum for UDP, which provides DDoS protection and firewalling for unreliable protocols. As a matter of routine Cloudflare also acts as a reverse proxy sitting between visitors and your site host to filter traffic in much the same way as Jigsaw's Project Shield. This maximizes your site's chances of staying online.Įvery Cloudflare user can choose to activate the 'I'm under attack' mode which can protect against even the most sophisticated of DoS attacks by presenting a Javascript challenge. Although Cloudflare is based in the US it maintains over 180 data centers around the world: an infrastructure to rival Google's. If your organization doesn't match these requirements you may have to consider an alternative solution such as Cloudflare.īusiness packages are relatively expensiveĪnyone who has used the Internet in the last few years will be familiar with Cloudflare as many major websites make use of its protection. The primary focus is also on small under resourced websites which cannot afford expensive hosting solutions to protect themselves for DDoS.

Several other tutorials are also available in the support section.Ĭurrently Project Shield is only available for media, election monitoring and human rights related websites. Fortunately, Jigsaw has thought of this and has put together a comprehensive tutorial (opens in new tab) to make sure secure connections to your site work seamlessly. This system makes Project Shield extremely easy to implement simply by changing your server's DNS settings.Īny power users reading may wonder how filtering traffic via a proxy will work with SSL. multiple connection attempts from the same IP address, then it is blocked.

If a connection request is determined to be bad e.g. If a connection seems to be from a legitimate visitor Project Shield permits the connection request. Project Shield is able to filter potential malicious traffic by acting as a reverse proxy which sits between a website and the internet at large, filtering connection requests.
