DDoS attacks are no longer blunt-force disruptions. They’re adaptive, multi-vector, and increasingly designed to blend in with legitimate traffic—making them harder to detect and even harder to stop without collateral damage.

That’s the context behind NSFOCUS being named a “Stars Company” in the DDoS Protection and Mitigation Security market by MarketsandMarkets’ 360Quadrants platform, a recognition that places the company among vendors combining strong product maturity with growing market impact.

The designation reflects NSFOCUS’s focus on automated, AI-driven DDoS defense—a shift that’s becoming table stakes as attack volumes surge and manual mitigation simply can’t keep up.

Why DDoS protection is being re-architected

Distributed denial-of-service attacks have evolved beyond traffic floods. Modern campaigns increasingly mix volumetric, protocol, and application-layer attacks, often launched simultaneously and tuned in real time to evade static defenses.

For enterprises, telecom providers, and operators of critical infrastructure, downtime is no longer just an IT problem—it’s a business continuity and trust issue. That reality is driving demand for platforms that can detect and mitigate attacks automatically, at scale, without disrupting legitimate users.

NSFOCUS’s DDoS Protection portfolio is built around that premise.

What differentiates NSFOCUS’s DDoS approach

At the core of NSFOCUS’s offering is a combination of AI-driven traffic analytics, behavioral modeling, and global threat intelligence. Together, these capabilities enable real-time detection and mitigation across multiple attack types while minimizing false positives.

Key elements of the platform include:

• Automated detection and mitigation of volumetric, protocol, and application-layer DDoS attacks

• Hybrid deployment architecture, combining on-premises appliances with cloud-based scrubbing centers

• Adaptive rate limiting and protocol anomaly analysis to maintain service availability during high-traffic events

• Bot filtering designed to separate malicious automation from real users

This hybrid model is particularly relevant for organizations operating across multi-cloud and carrier-grade environments, where traffic patterns are complex and capacity requirements can spike without warning.

Centralized visibility in a fragmented environment

One of the consistent challenges in DDoS defense is visibility. Many organizations rely on a patchwork of tools that detect attacks in isolation, making coordinated response difficult.

NSFOCUS addresses this with centralized management and analytics, giving security teams a unified view of attack activity, mitigation actions, and policy effectiveness. Detailed reporting and granular controls allow teams to tune defenses without rewriting configurations every time traffic patterns change.

Backed by continuous research and threat intelligence updates, the platform is designed to adapt as attackers change tactics—an increasingly important capability as DDoS tools become commoditized and widely accessible.

Why the 360Quadrants recognition matters

MarketsandMarkets’ 360Quadrants platform evaluates vendors using a mix of technical capability, commercial performance, and market execution, drawing on input from industry experts, customers, vendors, and secondary research sources.

The methodology includes:

• Shortlisting more than 25 prominent vendors and startups

• Regional portfolio and revenue analysis

• Assessment of growth initiatives and strategic collaborations

• Evaluation of industry-specific and market-relevant parameters

Being recognized as a “Stars Company” signals that NSFOCUS is not only delivering mature technology but is also gaining momentum in a market where credibility and performance are critical.

The broader market implication

The DDoS protection market is shifting away from static, rule-based systems toward automation-first security architectures. As attack durations shrink and complexity increases, response time has become just as important as detection accuracy.

Vendors that can combine AI, real-time analytics, and flexible deployment models are increasingly favored—especially by telecom carriers and operators of critical infrastructure, where latency and uptime are non-negotiable.

NSFOCUS’s recognition underscores that trend and highlights growing demand for resilient, scalable DDoS defenses that operate as a core layer of modern cybersecurity strategies rather than a bolt-on solution.

The takeaway

DDoS attacks aren’t slowing down—and they aren’t getting simpler. As attackers adopt more sophisticated techniques, organizations need protection that’s fast, automated, and adaptable across environments.

NSFOCUS’s “Stars Company” recognition from 360Quadrants reflects its positioning in that new reality: delivering AI-driven, hybrid DDoS protection designed to keep services online even when traffic turns hostile.

For enterprises and infrastructure providers rethinking how they defend availability, that shift from reactive mitigation to intelligent automation may be the most important upgrade of all.

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