Beyond the CDN: DDoS Resiliency Scorecard
Content delivery networks (CDNs) improve performance and help absorb traffic spikes, but real-world incidents show that CDNs alone are not designed to be an organization's sole line of defense against downtime, whether caused by attackers or by provider outages. This assessment helps IT, network, and security leaders quickly identify where their DDoS protection strategy may be over-reliant on a single layer of CDN-based defense.
Answer each statement honestly based on how your organization operates today. There are no wrong answers, only visibility into your current resilience.
Instructions:
• 13 statements across 4 risk categories
• Rate each one: Always / Occasionally / Never
• Maximum possible score: 13 points
• Takes less than 5 minutes to complete
THE BOTTOM LINE: DDoS protection is most effective as a layered, hybrid architecture — combining cloud-based scrubbing for volumetric attacks with on-premise, in-line defense for availability, precision, and operational independence. If this assessment surfaced a gap, NETSCOUT can help you understand what a hybrid approach could look like for your environment.
Learn More: https://www.netscout.com/resources/solution-briefs/cdns-alone-not-enough-advanced-ddos-protection