- Dual-Stack Protection: Full IPv4 and IPv6 Coverage
- Adaptive Mitigation: Every Attack Vector Gets Its Own Response
- Up to Three Times Faster Mitigation: Under 3 Seconds
- Greater Visibility: See What Is Happening in Real Time and Take Action
- Less Manual Effort: Protection That Adapts Continuously
- What Stays the Same
- Who Was This Advancement Built For?
- Conclusion
DDoS attacks are rapidly growing in intensity and precision. They are now shorter, more targeted, and increasingly AI-generated.
Link11 Network DDoS Protection has always been a strong and reliable standard for organizations looking to secure their network infrastructure. But the demands of modern enterprise networks have changed. Attackers are continuously refining their strategies. And the last thing your team deserves is the pressure to constantly recalibrate when an attack is underway.
Therefore, in direct response to the evolving threat mitigation needs of modern enterprise environments, we have significantly advanced our Network DDoS Protection offering.
This article breaks down what has changed in the DDoS threat landscape and what those changes mean for your network protection strategy.
Dual-Stack Protection: Full IPv4 and IPv6 Coverage
As IPv6 adoption grows, modern environments are increasingly operating across both IPv4 and IPv6 networks. While this flexibility is highly desired by our customers, it changes the protection requirements. If IPv6 traffic is reachable but not protected with the same level of precision as IPv4, attackers can use that gap to bypass defenses and disrupt services.
The new generation of Link11 Network DDoS Protection closes this gap entirely. Organizations no longer need to secure their IPv6 infrastructure separately or operate with different protection tiers. Their entire network is protected with the same detection depth, mitigation speed, and capacity, regardless of whether an attack targets IPv4 or IPv6.
Learn how the new Network DDoS Protection protects you even more effectively
Faster mitigation, IPv6 parity, greater transparency, and significantly less manual effort.
Adaptive Mitigation: Every Attack Vector Gets Its Own Response
Traditional DDoS mitigation often starts with a simple premise: detect abnormal traffic, trigger an alert, and apply a broad mitigation response.
While this approach can stop attacks, it often lacks precision in its ability to mitigate rapidly evolcing attacks. Additionally, when mitigation is applied too broadly, legitimate traffic may also be affected alongside malicious traffic. This can lead to serious reputational damage as well as revenue loss for organizations.
The next-gen Link11 Network Protection takes a different approach. Its adaptive mitigation engine analyzes each individual attack vector and develops a targeted response to the attack. Volumetric attacks are handled separately from protocol-based attacks or amplification vectors.
Therefore, the SOC teams now benefit from higher precision in mitigating the most complex of attacks, fewer false positives. Legitimate traffic remains unaffected and online.
Up to Three Times Faster Mitigation: Under 3 Seconds
When a DDoS attack begins, every second matters. Even a short burst of malicious traffic can create visible disruption if it overwhelms critical services, application paths, or customer-facing infrastructure.
The previous system achieved mitigation times of under 10 seconds, which was already a strong result. The new generation reduces that mitigation window to under 3 seconds. That is up to three times faster than before.
Attacks are now identified and mitigated much earlier, reducing the chance of noticeable disruption for your users. The result is not only faster protection, but stronger service continuity when availability matters most.
Greater Visibility: See What Is Happening in Real Time and Take Action
Protection you cannot understand is difficult to trust. Effective DDoS mitigation should not operate like a black box. It should give your team visibility into what is happening, why action is being taken, and how your services are being protected.
Previously, attacks were mitigated first, with documentation provided afterwards through incident summaries. For many scenarios, that would have been sufficient. But when your team needs to explain an incident to management, support compliance requirements, or understand how an attack unfolded, incident reports alone are not enough.
The Link11 Next Gen Network DDoS Protection gives you real-time insight during an attack. Teams can now see what is being blocked, why it is being blocked, and which services remain available. This is complemented by comprehensive post-attack reporting that turns incident data into actionable intelligence.
Your security team can thus respond faster. Compliance documentation becomes easier to support. And confidence in your protection infrastructure grows, because your team can follow exactly what it is doing while it protects your services.
Less Manual Effort: Protection That Adapts Continuously
DDoS Protection can no longer rely on static configurations alone. Attack patterns evolve, traffic changes over time, and business-critical services often behave differently under load. A mitigation system that does not adapt to these changes can gradually become less accurate and harder to operate.
The previous version already provided a strong foundation through auto-learning capabilities. However, maintaining effective detection still required regular manual tuning to keep protection parameters aligned with the customer’s traffic profile.
The next-gen DDoS Protection reduces this operational burden significantly. The proactive mitigation engine was built for the AI era and continuously analyzes traffic behavior and adjusts protection logic with far less manual intervention from the customer’s team.
This lowers day-to-day operational effort, manual tuning and reduces the risk of outdated configurations during active attacks, and allows security teams to focus on availability, resilience, and incident response instead of constantly recalibrating mitigation settings.
What Stays the Same
Nothing changes in the way you use the service.
Your existing setup, onboarding method, operating mode, and core service architecture remain the same. You can continue to rely on the same global mitigation capacity, always-on, on-demand, or hybrid deployment models, and GDPR-aligned operation.
The new version improves the protection engine behind the service. It does not require you to rethink how the service is deployed or operated.
Who Was This Advancement Built For?
The new generation of Link11 Network DDoS Protection was built for companies that:
- Must address complex attack vectors that have long moved beyond simple volumetrics
- Define maximum availability as a business-critical requirement and cannot tolerate a single second of downtime
- Need transparency and accountability – for internal teams, management, and compliance
- Want to reduce operational overhead without compromising on protection quality
- Operate dual-stack networks and require both IPv4 and IPv6 protection.
In short: for everyone who wants not just to secure their infrastructure, but to fully understand and control it.
Conclusion
Attackers keep evolving, and the tools you rely on should too. Link11’s next-generation Network DDoS Protection now delivers IPv6 parity, adaptive future-proof mitigation at the vector level, three times faster response times, full real-time visibility, and significantly reduced operational effort. All built on the proven, data-sovereign, resilient infrastructure you already trust.
If you want to see what this means for your specific environment, get in touch with us. We will show you how the new generation works within your infrastructure.
Next Gen Network DDoS Comparison
When strong protection gets even better
Faster mitigation, IPv6 parity, greater visibility, and significantly less manual effort.
All available mitigations enabled simultaneously, regardless of the attack type.
Applies targeted mitigation with greater precision, identifying legitimate traffic from illegitimate one, blocking only what is necessary.
Detection relied on static, customer-specific configuration and required periodic manual tuning.
Uses behavioural detection that learns from live traffic patterns and continuously improves over time, reducing false positives.
Limited insight into individual attack and mitigation events.
Offers full visibility into every attack and mitigation event through real-time logs, reason codes, and dashboard reporting.
Under 10 seconds.
Under 3 seconds, reducing exposure window and accelerating protection.
Supported IPv4 only.
Full IPv4 and IPv6 coverage for consistent protection across modern environments.
More manual tuning and ongoing adjustments required.
Reduces manual intervention through smarter automation and more precise decision-making.
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