How to Use DDoS in a Sentence

DDoS

abbreviation or noun

• If a DDoS attack can slow down the competitor, the attacker gains a critical edge.
  — Carlos Morales, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• Players use DDoS as a means to get an edge against their competitors in major online competitions.
  — Carlos Morales, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• Cybercriminals also employ DDoS as a tool, but their goals are less about disruption and more about gaining financial rewards.
  — Carlos Morales, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• This effectively splits a large DDoS botnet into many smaller parts, with each protection node receiving only a portion of the malicious traffic.
  — Alexander Krizhanovsky, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• There are plenty of online guides on how to tune Nginx, HAProxy and other common web proxies for L7 DDoS protection.
  — Alexander Krizhanovsky, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• However, as your business and traffic grow, scaling DDoS protection becomes increasingly difficult.
  — Alexander Krizhanovsky, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• The cornerstone of a DDoS-resilient infrastructure is Anycast technology, which allows multiple nodes across the internet to share the same IP address.
  — Alexander Krizhanovsky, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• Volumetric DDoS Protection The first layer to build is volumetric DDoS protection.
  — Alexander Krizhanovsky, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• However, because the scrubber didn’t have access to the bank’s TLS certificates, the bank had to provide access logs for the scrubber to analyze and block application-level (L7) DDoS attacks.
  — Alexander Krizhanovsky, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• Application-Level DDoS Protection While volumetric attacks target link capacity and basic operating system functionality, application-level (L7) DDoS attacks focus on application servers, such as web servers, web applications and database servers.
  — Alexander Krizhanovsky, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025