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To tackle the advanced DDoS threats of today and tomorrow, it is increasingly clear that cloud DDoS mitigation providers must rapidly innovate solutions and implement them quickly on a global scale. To help meet the performance, availability and functional requirements of operating critical Internet infrastructure, Verisign developed its innovative DDoS mitigation platform, called Athena.
This technical report describes the Athena platform, a globally distributed DDoS mitigation system that provides comprehensive protection against network- and application-layer attacks, and specializes in mitigating Layer-7 and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)-based attacks.