As more and more services are migrating online, DDoS attacks are increasingly shifting away from the network layer, and into the application layer. L7 DDoS Poses A Unique Challenge Application-layer (L7) DDoS attacks pose a unique challenge for DDoS defenses, as they require insight into application behavior, and it is difficult to tell whether a request is legitimate or malicious by looking just at the network-layer traffic.
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