How Cloudflare Protects Your Business from DDoS Attacks

Every minute your website is down costs revenue, reputation, and customer trust. Today, a teenager with a credit card can rent a “DDoS-as-a-Service” attack for less than a round of coffees and it’s powerful enough to take a global enterprise offline. That’s the reality IT leaders face: outages are no longer rare, they’re for sale.

How Cloudflare Defends Against DDoS Attacks

Cloudflare has become the world’s largest and most trusted DDoS protection platform. Sitting in front of your applications it acts like a shield, inspecting all incoming traffic before it reaches the actual server. It’s a security platform that reduces complexity, consolidates tools, and scales as fast as your business does.

Protection That Delivers Business Outcomes

• Absorb Attacks at Scale
  Cloudflare’s 300+ global data centres soak up massive surges of malicious traffic before it ever touches your infrastructure. The result? Zero disruption for your customers.
• Reduce Noise for Your Team
  Real-time traffic analysis filters out malicious requests at the edge, cutting false positives and keeping your SOC focused on what matters.
• Maintain Uptime, Even Under Fire
  Anycast routing spreads traffic across multiple data centres, removing single points of failure and guaranteeing availability.
• Simplify Your Security Stack
  Cloudflare unites DDoS protection, Web Application Firewall (WAF), bot mitigation, Zero Trust access, and performance acceleration into one platform. That means fewer vendors, less complexity, and lower cost.

Beyond DDoS: A Broader Security Platform

Forward-thinking IT leaders are moving beyond point solutions. Cloudflare enables you to:

• Replace VPNs with scalable Zero Trust access controls.
• Protect apps and APIs with WAF and bot management.
• Accelerate global performance with its CDN and smart routing.
• Build and deploy at the edge with Cloudflare Workers and R2 storage.
• Secure your wider infrastructure with Magic Transit, WAN, and Firewall services.

It’s not just about blocking attacks, it’s about delivering faster, safer, more reliable digital experiences worldwide.

Why Red Helix

As a Cloudflare UK partner, Red Helix helps organisations unlock the full potential of the platform. We work with you to:

• Design the right deployment for your environment.
• Integrate Cloudflare with your existing security stack.
• Optimise configurations for resilience, performance, and cost efficiency.

And because we also partner with CrowdStrike, we bring complete visibility: Cloudflare stops attacks at the edge while CrowdStrike protects your endpoints. Together, they provide unmatched end-to-end protection.

The Bottom Line

DDoS attacks are no longer a nuisance; they’re a business risk that can cripple operations and erode trust in minutes. Cloudflare helps you stay resilient, maintain uptime, and simplify security. With Red Helix, you gain a partner who ensures that resilience is tuned to your business priorities.

For IT leaders under pressure to deliver both security and availability, Cloudflare isn’t optional it’s essential.