Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Testing
Test detection, mitigation, and recovery under controlled, realistic denial-of-service conditions.
DDoS attacks can cripple online operations in minutes. We perform controlled DDoS simulations across network, transport, and application layers to measure detection, mitigation, and recovery performance under realistic attack conditions.
When To Engage Us
- Organisations operating critical public-facing services
- Teams validating WAF, CDN, or upstream mitigation changes
- Service owners preparing resilience and recovery exercises
What We Cover
- Network, transport, and application-layer scenarios
- Detection and escalation workflows
- Rate limiting, WAF, and scrubbing controls
- Recovery performance and operational coordination
Clear Outputs
Typical Engagement Outputs
Final outputs are agreed during scoping so they support the decisions your team needs to make.
- Controlled test plan and safety boundaries
- Observed control and response performance
- Prioritised tuning recommendations
- Exercise debrief and resilience roadmap
Define The Right Boundary
How We Scope It
A useful engagement begins with a clear assurance question. For this service, scoping normally considers:
- Authorised targets, service owners, hosting providers, and third-party approvals
- Critical user journeys, expected traffic, service-level objectives, and unacceptable impacts
- Attack vectors, traffic ceilings, test stages, abort conditions, and safety controls
- Monitoring coverage, escalation paths, provider coordination, and recovery measures
From Question To Uplift
How We Work
The approach is adapted to your environment, while keeping communication, evidence handling, and decision points clear.
Plan Safely
Confirm ownership, approvals, targets, thresholds, communications, and clear abort conditions before traffic is sent.
Baseline
Establish normal service behaviour and confirm that telemetry, providers, and responders are ready for the exercise.
Exercise In Stages
Introduce agreed scenarios progressively while monitoring application, network, mitigation, and operational response.
Tune & Debrief
Compare expected and observed behaviour, identify control gaps, and prioritise resilience improvements.
Common Questions
Before You Engage
Can DDoS testing be performed against production services?
It can be, with explicit authorisation, provider coordination, staged traffic, real-time monitoring, and agreed abort thresholds. The appropriate target and method are determined during scoping.
Will you coordinate with our CDN, carrier, or mitigation provider?
Yes. Third-party approvals and coordination are treated as part of the safety plan where their infrastructure or controls are involved.
Is this only a bandwidth test?
No. Scenarios can exercise network, transport, and application-layer behaviour as well as detection, escalation, mitigation, and recovery processes.
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