A DDoS Attack Does Not Need to Breach Your Systems to Cause Serious Damage. It Just Needs to Make Them Unavailable.
A Distributed Denial of Service attack overwhelms your infrastructure with illegitimate traffic until legitimate users cannot get through. For banks and financial institutions, even minutes of service unavailability during peak hours carries direct revenue, reputational and regulatory consequences. SITS implements and manages DDoS protection solutions that detect and neutralise attacks in real time — before your customers notice.
2,200
+
DDoS attacks observed per day globally in 2024 — with financial services consistently among the most targeted sectors
Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report 2024
54
%
of DDoS attacks in 2024 targeted application-layer services — meaning traditional volumetric defences alone are no longer sufficient protection
Radware Global DDoS Attack Report 2024
The reality
Availability Is Not Optional for a Financial Institution.
Customers who cannot access their mobile banking, internet banking or ATM network during an attack do not wait patiently. They call your contact centre, they post on social media and — if the outage persists — they reconsider their banking relationship entirely.
DDoS protection is not about defending against a low-probability event. It is about maintaining the service availability your customers expect and your regulators require, regardless of what your adversaries are attempting.
HOW WE PROTECT YOU
Three layers of DDoS defence — from network to application.
Effective DDoS protection requires defence at multiple layers. Volumetric attacks, protocol attacks and application-layer attacks each require different detection and mitigation approaches.
01
Volumetric attack mitigation.
High-volume traffic floods targeting your network bandwidth are absorbed and scrubbed through our appliance and cloud-based mitigation infrastructure — with capacity from 1Gbps to 480Gbps. Legitimate traffic continues to flow uninterrupted while attack traffic is blocked at the network edge.
02
Application-layer protection.
Layer 7 DDoS attacks target your web applications and APIs directly — mimicking legitimate user behaviour to evade volumetric defences. Our Web Application Firewall and application-layer inspection identify and block these attacks without affecting genuine user sessions.
03
Real-time detection and response.
Our 24/7 monitoring infrastructure detects attack signatures and anomalous traffic patterns in real time — initiating mitigation automatically before attack volumes reach levels that affect service availability. Every attack is documented with post-event analysis.
WHAT WE DEPLOY
Flexible DDoS Protection — Appliance, Cloud or Hybrid.
Available in multiple deployment configurations to match your infrastructure model and protection requirements.
Appliance-based protection
- Inline or out-of-path deployment options
- 1Gbps to 480Gbps mitigation capacity
- Virtual machine deployment on KVM environments
- Real-time traffic inspection and filtering
- Layer 3 to Layer 7 protection coverage
- Ultra-low false positive and false negative rates
Cloud & managed services
- Cloud scrubbing centre integration via DNS or BGP
- Global threat intelligence feed integration
- Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- Next-generation IDS/IPS
- 24/7/365 monitoring and incident response
- Post-attack analysis and reporting
DELIVERY FRAMEWORK
Two stages. From sizing to active protection.
01
Deploy
Assessment, sizing & implementation
We assess your infrastructure, determine appropriate protection capacity and deploy the DDoS mitigation solution — whether appliance-based, cloud-based or hybrid. Configuration is validated under simulated attack conditions before go-live.
02
Protect
24/7 technical support
Continuous traffic monitoring, real-time attack detection and automated mitigation — with our team available around the clock for incident escalation, post-attack review and ongoing configuration optimisation.
Protect Your Availability Before an Attack Forces You to.
Speak to our team about implementing DDoS protection that keeps your services available for legitimate customers — regardless of what your adversaries attempt.