Why DDoS Mitigation Fails: 5 Gaps That Testing Reveals

This article outlines five common gaps in DDoS mitigation—misconfiguration, shared-responsibility blind spots, limited test coverage of attack vectors, application-layer underprotection, and insufficient team readiness—and argues that controlled DDoS simulation testing and a DDoS Resilience Score (DRS) are necessary to reveal and remediate those weaknesses before real attacks cause outages.