Introducing Cloudflare Adaptive DDoS Protection - our new traffic profiling system for mitigating DDoS attacks

Cloudflare has introduced its new Adaptive DDoS Protection system, which is now generally available for Enterprise customers. This innovative technology learns the unique traffic patterns of each Internet property and adapts to protect against sophisticated DDoS attacks. The system creates a traffic profile by looking at a customer's maximal rates of traffic every day for the past seven days and stores the maximal traffic rates seen for every predefined dimension value. Adaptive DDoS Protection also leverages Cloudflare's Machine Learning generated Bot Scores to differentiate between user and automated traffic. The system works out of the box, automatically creating profiles that can be tweaked and tuned as needed via DDoS Managed Rules. This new feature complements Cloudflare's existing DDoS protection systems, which leverage dynamic fingerprinting to detect and mitigate DDoS attacks.