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Network Edge Protection Services

Secure your valuable data with a managed Web Application Firewall, Content Delivery Network, and web optimization ‐ all backed by always-on DDoS mitigation. Atlantic.Net's Managed Network Edge Protection lets you stay focused on your core business while our engineers absorb attacks, enforce policy, and accelerate delivery at the network perimeter.

What Is Network Edge Protection?

Network edge protection is a set of security and performance controls deployed at the network perimeter ‐ the boundary between the public internet and your servers ‐ to safeguard workloads against unauthorized access, DDoS attacks, application-layer abuse, and other cyber threats. The goal is to preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of customer data while keeping legitimate traffic fast.

What's Included

DDoS Protection

Denial-of-service (DoS) attacks interrupt an authorized user's access to a computer network. They have grown more frequent and more complex, including distributed (DDoS) and distributed reflector (DRDoS) variants ‐ coordinated traffic floods from large botnets that make the source much harder to identify.

Modern attacks bypass traditional on-site defenses. Atlantic.Net's edge protection technology is designed to ensure that DDoS, DRDoS, and any service-denial traffic never reach your internet properties. The DDoS network is built to contain and repel advanced attacks ‐ including UDP and ICMP floods, SYN/ACK abuse, DNS amplification, and Layer 7 application-layer attacks.

Atlantic.Net's DDoS protection pricing is fixed, so a traffic spike during an attack does not turn into an unpredictable bill. The primary objective is your safety and operational continuity.

Robust Web Application Firewall

The integrated Web Application Firewall (WAF) inspects web traffic for suspicious activity and automatically filters out illegitimate requests based on rule sets that Atlantic.Net applies for you ‐ or custom rules you can request. The WAF examines GET and POST-based HTTP requests and applies rules such as the ModSecurity core rule set covering the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, deciding what to block, challenge, or let pass. It blocks comment spam, cross-site scripting (XSS), and SQL injection.

The WAF protects your internet property against attacks ‐ including zero-day vulnerabilities ‐ without compromising performance, while supporting PCI compliance requirements for online merchants. Coverage extends across the OWASP Top 10 plus custom rules for explicit attack patterns. Implementation does not require changes to your network architecture.

Website Optimization

Web optimization streamlines content delivery by bundling JavaScript files, minimizing network connections, and compressing resource size to boost performance. Traffic is routed through the least-congested portions of our network.

The goal is to ensure that the various content types ‐ including third-party resources embedded in your site ‐ do not compromise loading time, regardless of the network or device used to access the content. The system automatically adapts presentation and delivery for different screen shapes and sizes while preserving speed and reliability for a seamless mobile experience.

Activating these services is fast, requires no code changes, and adds no hardware. Features include:

Automatic HTTPS rewrites ‐ dynamically rewriting insecure URLs for both performance and security.
Automatic content caching ‐ intelligently caching the objects required to render your site quickly.
Accelerated mobile links ‐ drastically reducing mobile page-load time.
Automatic minification ‐ removing unnecessary characters from HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Mix and match these features to take application performance to the next level.

Seamless Content Delivery Network (CDN)

With servers positioned across key global points, Atlantic.Net's network delivers your content to customers with high speed and reliability. Lightweight infrastructure with integrated load balancing and built-in failover preserves performance while improving security. A smaller footprint translates to optimal use of power and cooling while preserving the integrity and seamless flow of your data.

As information travels, the CDN caches data and routes traffic by server proximity, so users reach your content quickly regardless of location. The system is easy to set up, with affordable and predictable pricing.

The platform is designed for the future. The network is continuously updated to integrate with emerging technologies. The mission is 100% uptime alongside access to state-of-the-art delivery solutions.

Self-Managed Network Security vs. Managed Network Edge Protection

What changes when you move from stitching together your own DDoS, WAF, and CDN stack to Atlantic.Net's Managed Network Edge Protection? The table below summarizes the differences most teams care about.

Capability	Self-Managed Network Security	Atlantic.Net Network Edge Protection
DDoS mitigation	Per-attack scrubbing fees or outages	Always-on mitigation at the network edge
Coverage of advanced attacks (Layer 7, SYN/ACK, DNS amplification, DRDoS)	Often partial	Yes ‐ designed against modern attack types
Web Application Firewall (OWASP Top 10)	Separate product, separate vendor	Built in ‐ ModSecurity-based managed rule set
Custom WAF rules	Limited or self-built	Yes ‐ configured and managed by Atlantic.Net
Content Delivery Network (CDN)	Separate vendor and contract	Built in
Web optimization (HTTPS rewrites, caching, minification)	Self-implemented	Built in, no code changes required
Pricing during a DDoS attack	Variable ‐ subject to traffic-based spike billing	Fixed
24/7 monitoring and response	You	Atlantic.Net NOC, US-based
Network architecture changes required	Usually yes ‐ integrating multiple vendors	None ‐ transparent at the edge
Compliance posture (PCI DSS)	You	Atlantic.Net audited environment
Time to deploy	Weeks to months for multi-vendor stack	Days

Secure your network perimeter with Atlantic.Net's Managed Network Edge Protection. Mitigate risk and ensure business continuity. Contact us to safeguard your infrastructure. For faster application deployment, free IT architecture design, and assessment, call 888-618-DATA (3282) or email us at sales@atlantic.net.

Frequently Asked Questions About Network Edge Protection

Network edge protection is a set of security and performance controls deployed at the boundary between the public internet and your servers. It typically combines always-on DDoS mitigation, a web application firewall, a content delivery network, and web optimization. The goal is to absorb attacks and accelerate legitimate traffic before either reaches your application.

Always-on DDoS mitigation against UDP/ICMP floods, SYN/ACK abuse, DNS amplification, and Layer 7 attacks; a Web Application Firewall (WAF) covering OWASP Top 10 with managed and custom rules; web optimization (HTTPS rewrites, automatic caching, accelerated mobile links, automatic minification); and a global Content Delivery Network. The service is monitored 24/7/365 by our US-based Network Operations Center.

Host firewalls (iptables, Windows Firewall, security groups) enforce rules at the operating system level on traffic that has already reached your server. Network Edge Protection inspects and filters traffic upstream, before it touches your infrastructure, and applies DDoS mitigation, WAF rules, and CDN routing that host firewalls cannot. Most production environments use both.

Volumetric attacks targeting UDP and ICMP, protocol attacks such as SYN/ACK floods, reflection and amplification attacks (including DNS amplification), distributed reflector denial-of-service (DRDoS), and Layer 7 application-layer attacks targeting HTTP/HTTPS endpoints.

No. Atlantic.Net's DDoS protection pricing is fixed, so traffic-volume fluctuations during an attack do not turn into an unpredictable bill. You pay for protection, not for absorbing attack traffic.

The WAF inspects GET and POST HTTP/HTTPS requests against rule sets (including the ModSecurity core rule set covering the OWASP Top 10) and blocks, challenges, or allows traffic accordingly. It defends against SQL injection, cross-site scripting, comment spam, and common zero-day patterns without requiring changes to your application code or network architecture.

Yes. Atlantic.Net engineers maintain the managed baseline rule set, and custom rules can be added on request to address application-specific attack patterns or business logic. Rule changes follow a review-and-approve workflow through your account team.

Yes. The CDN is bundled into Network Edge Protection. Globally distributed cache nodes and proximity-based routing accelerate content delivery, and integrated load balancing with built-in failover preserves availability without a separate vendor or contract.

Yes. PCI DSS 4.0 requires defenses against well-known attack patterns and access controls at the network perimeter. The Network Edge Protection WAF and DDoS mitigation map directly to those requirements, and the service runs inside the same audited infrastructure that backs our PCI-compliant and HIPAA-compliant hosting.

No. Network Edge Protection deploys transparently in front of your existing infrastructure ‐ no code changes, no new hardware. The usual change is a DNS update so traffic flows through Atlantic.Net's edge before reaching your servers.