10 Best Practices to Prevent DDoS Attacks

**Executive Summary:** This article provides an overview of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks — covering volumetric, protocol, and application-layer variants — lists common symptoms and ten practical mitigation best practices (such as traffic baselining, response planning, redundancy, anti-DDoS tooling, cloud services, and continuous monitoring), and positions SecurityScorecard as a tool to help identify external exposure and contextualize traffic anomalies; it is an informational/marketing piece rather than a report of a specific cybersecurity incident.