DDoS & Traffic Anomaly Control
Detect Anomalies Before They Become Outages
Availability failures are preceded by detectable traffic anomalies — unusual connection rates, strange protocol behavior, traffic from unexpected sources. Most organizations only notice when services are already degraded.
How It Works
Continuous Monitoring
Connection rates per source are tracked in real-time. Request concurrency, distribution patterns, and protocol anomalies — malformed headers, unusual flags, connection state abuse — are flagged immediately. Baselines are maintained automatically, so deviations are detected without manual threshold configuration.
Instant Mitigation
Enforcement happens at the proxy layer with no waiting for external scrubbing services. No manual intervention required. No ticket escalation. Malicious traffic is dropped before it reaches your application servers, preserving capacity for legitimate requests.
Local Control
Quicksand is not dependent on upstream providers. Mitigation runs on your perimeter, with your policies, in milliseconds. Response times are predictable regardless of external factors. You maintain full control over enforcement decisions and thresholds.
Business Continuity
Legitimate traffic continues to flow during attacks. Enforcement targets malicious patterns specifically, not broad rate limits that punish everyone. Granular identification ensures that real users and critical services remain unaffected while attack traffic is neutralized.
Key Outcomes
- Early detection of abnormal traffic patterns
- Immediate mitigation at the edge
- No configuration reloads, no downtime
- Evidence-backed incident timelines
Built for organizations that cannot afford delayed response or shared mitigation capacity.
Ready to Protect Against DDoS and Traffic Anomalies?
See how Quicksand detects and mitigates availability threats at your perimeter.
Scenario
A critical infrastructure operator experiences periodic traffic anomalies — unusual connection rates from unexpected sources, protocol-level irregularities, and gradual capacity exhaustion. External scrubbing services add latency and compliance concerns. Quicksand detects deviations from established baselines and enforces mitigation locally, preserving capacity for legitimate operations without external dependencies.