What is DDoS mitigation?

DDoS mitigation refers to the techniques and tools used to protect a network or application from a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack. These attacks involve overwhelming a target with malicious traffic from multiple sources, rendering it unavailable to legitimate users. Mitigation techniques often involve identifying and filtering malicious traffic, absorbing the attack with large bandwidth capacity, and employing various rate limiting and traffic shaping strategies.