Cloudflare adds free DDoS protection tool

In an effort to protect its users from the effects of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, Cloudflare has announced that its customers will receive a new protection tool for free. The Unmetered Mitigation feature, which will be available for both paying and non-paying users, will receive the new feature intended to protect against all DDoS attacks regardless of their scale. Company CEO Matthew Prince believes that is time for security firms to change the way they treat customers affected by an attack. In the past, Cloudflare and other companies would often raise their rates after a customer had suffered an attack, but with… [Continue Reading]