{"id":15067,"date":"2024-12-17T07:40:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T07:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/?p=15067"},"modified":"2024-12-24T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:18:44","slug":"how-to-prevent-ddos-in-magento-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/how-to-prevent-ddos-in-magento-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to prevent DDoS in Magento 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Online businesses are growing rapidly, and even a few hours of downtime in a web application can severely impact business continuity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DDoS attack<\/a> is one of the attacks that could overload your Magento 2 store<\/a> and make the server unavailable to legitimate users. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we are going to talk about what is DDoS and how to prevent the Magento 2 store from this attack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is a DDoS attack?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service<\/strong>) <\/a>is a type of attack that slows down or crashes our Magento 2 server, service, and networks by flooding them with fake traffic from multiple IPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s difficult to detect because the source of the traffic is not the same. DDoS attacks are a threat to all sizes of businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Types of DDoS attack<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1. Volumetric attack:<\/strong> This type of attack is a common form of DDoS attack in which the attacker consumes the target’s available bandwidth with a false data request of large size. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This traffic blocks legitimate users from accessing services and the Magento 2 <\/a>server. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

UDP floods in one of the volumetric attacks in which attackers overwhelm ports on the server with UDP stateless packets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Protocol attack:<\/strong> This attack is also known as a network-layer DDoS attack. This can cause a service disruption by exploiting weaknesses in layer 3 and layer 4 of protocol stacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SYN flood is an example of such an attack that consumes all server resources and makes the server unavailable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Application attack:<\/strong> It works on layer 7 of the OSI model. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This attack targets a specific web application, not an entire network, in which the attacker sends a high number of HTTP requests to exhaust the server response limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"ddos\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

How to protect your Magento 2 server From DDoS attack:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As prevention of DDoS attacks is challenging because of the struggle to differentiate between legitimate and malicious requests. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But by taking the following countermeasures, we can mitigate the risk of DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Using Next Generation Firewall:<\/strong> It filters the incoming requests at the application as well as on the network layer. This prevents bad actors from targeting your IP addresses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next-Generation Firewall works as an intrusion detection and prevention system, based on some rulesets to identify DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Using AWS Shield:<\/strong> AWS Shield<\/a> is a tool that provides protection from DDoS attacks for the application hosted on AWS. It inspects traffic in real-time and blocks harmful traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.<\/strong> Using CAPTCHA<\/strong>: Captcha is helpful in case of an attack on the authentication page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever a bot tries to process its request, it fails to pass the captcha challenge because it needs human interaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. Continuous monitoring of network traffic:<\/strong> Monitoring traffic in real-time is a great way to trace DDoS activity and take action accordingly before the attack takes full swing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.<\/strong> Using Fail2ban Utility:<\/strong> Fail2ban works as an Intrusion Detection System(IDS). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It bans IPs or takes configured action on suspicious activities from server error log files such as \/var\/log\/nginx\/error.log. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fail2ban updates the firewall rules to reject suspicious IPs from log files for a specified amount of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.<\/strong> Request Rate Limit: <\/strong>Limiting the request rate is an effective way in case of a DDoS attack. This will limit the number of requests in a certain time frame based on username\/IP on the login page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Based on the above-given steps, we can mitigate the risk of an attack and make the store available to legitimate users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To safeguard your Magento 2 store from DDoS attacks, visit our store<\/a> and check out our DDoS firewall Protection for Magento 2 <\/a> module for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case of any help or query, please contact<\/a> us or raise a ticket<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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