Following a series of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on our network infrastructure, our development team conducted an extensive review and identified the lack of adequate DDoS protection as a significant vulnerability. These attacks severely impacted our service availability, affecting both client trust and operational performance.
The attacks utilized a high volume of requests to overwhelm our system, making it inaccessible to legitimate users. Traditional mitigation strategies proved insufficient against the scale and sophistication of these attacks.
In response to this challenge, the development team proposed the integration of a Proof-of-Work (PoW) algorithm to bolster our defenses against DDoS attacks. PoW requires a not-insignificant amount of computational work from the requester, thus providing a natural barrier against the bulk automated requests typical of DDoS attacks.
The chosen PoW algorithm will require all incoming requests to provide a proof of computational effort before processing. This method is expected to deter malicious actors due to the increased costs and effort associated with launching a DDoS attack.