Imagine you’re the CEO of a major retailer on Black Friday. How your e-commerce site performs on this one day could determine whether your entire year is a success or failure.

Or maybe you’re the CTO of a broadcasting company with the contract to air the most-watched championship gridiron football game in history, or maybe the Olympics, with tens of millions of users streaming through a wide range of end devices, content delivery networks (CDNs) and internet service providers (ISPs). Now is not the time for a denial of service attack that prevents millions from watching the game.