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Designing SYN Flood Mitigation for the Real Internet

Retransmission-based SYN flood mitigation—dropping the first SYN and accepting connections only on client retry—is preferred over SYN cookies because it preserves full TCP performance, eliminates reflection risks, and scales more effectively.
Donny Chong
Nexusguard
26 Feb 2026
3 mins read

From protection to accountability: a year that quietly changed cybersecurity

Outages in 2025 turned cybersecurity into accountability. Trust came from explaining, not just preventing. 2026 is about ownership.
Donny Chong
Nexusguard
02 Feb 2026
8 mins read

Seeing Inside the Kernel: How Nexusguard Uses eBPF for High-Precision Observability and Security

A practical look at how eBPF enables precise, low-overhead observability in modern security platforms
Gao Shen
Nexusguard
19 Jan 2026
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Application Protection,HTTP Headers,OWASP,WAF

Hardening Web Applications using Secure HTTP Headers

Nexusguard’s Application Protection now provides its users the ability to secure their web applications via our Web Application Firewall feature. Find out how implementing Secure Headers effectively helps secure modern browsers!
Nexusguard
16 Nov 2020
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Amplification Attack,DDoS Mitigation,DNS,QUIC

Could “QUIC” turn into the next most prevalent amplification attack vector?

Nexusguard is adept at identifying and mitigating various attacks including memcached reflection attacks and DNSSEC amplification attacks, quickly and efficiently.
Nexusguard
19 Oct 2020
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DDoS Mitigation with Flowspec

Incorporating BGP Flowspec into Nexusguard’s DDoS Mitigation Platform now enables CSPs to efficiently and specifically select and drop malicious traffic without impacting healthy traffic streams.
Nexusguard
02 Oct 2020
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DDoS Attacks,DDoS Mitigation,DDoS Protection,DDoS detection,Hybrid solution

Nexusguard’s True-Hybrid Solution

With cyberattacks now being launched in various sizes and with differing intentions, deploying Nexusguard’s True-Hybrid offering could well be what saves your organization from falling victim to a major DDoS attack.
Nexusguard
29 Sep 2020
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Artificial Intelligence,DDoS Attacks,DDoS Protection,DDoS detection,Machine learning

Smart Mode: DDoS Attack Detection using Machine Learning

Nexusguard’s Smart Mode detection uses Machine Learning techniques to predict whether network traffic coming from a source is legitimate or part of a malicious DDoS attack.
Nexusguard
27 Aug 2020
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Application Protection
Application Protection
DNS Protection
DNS Protection
Origin Protection
Origin Protection
Anti-DDoS,DDoS Mitigation,DDoS Protection,FortiDDoS,Hybrid solution

The Best of Both Worlds: On-Premise and in the Cloud

By employing a hybrid solution, attack detection and mitigation kicks in immediately and automatically via the on-premise appliances that stop application attacks from crippling online services.
Nexusguard
21 Aug 2020
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Origin Protection
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Bypass Attacks,Communications Service Provider,DDoS Attacks,DDoS Mitigation,DDoS Protection,ISP

Could “Bypass Attacks” become the New Normal?

Rather than the use of traditional tactics exploited by the criminal underworld to carry out DDoS attacks, more complex tactics have been employed to hamper the detection and mitigation of attacks on infrastructures.
Nexusguard
30 Jul 2020
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BGP,Cloud Diversion,Communications Service Provider,DDoS Protection

Reaping the Benefits of DDoS Incident Handling Automation

Nexusguard’s Cloud Diversion App provides the complete set of tools you need to facilitate the automation of your incident handling workflows, expedite time-to-mitigation and optimize your overall security strategies.
Nexusguard
16 Jun 2020
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