Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are the worst nightmare of every web presence. Common wisdom has it that there is nothing you can do to protect yourself when a DDoS attack hits you. Nothing? Well, unless you have Zeus Traffic Manager. Read on to find out how ZXTM helped a customer keep their site available to legitimate users when they came under massive attack from the "dark side". Read more...

ZXTM 5.0 allows you to call a customized version of Java's Servlet API from within TrafficScript™. In this article we'll show how you can dynamically change ZXTM's configuration by accessing the SOAP interface of the admin server from a Java Extension that is run when a TrafficScript rule detects a network attack. Read more...

IPv6 has been hailed as the remedy for many of the internet's current limitations ever since the mid-1990s. Nevertheless, even today in 2008 only a small fraction of the traffic on the internet is actually flowing over IPv6. Some of the reasons many websites are only available over IPv4 are interoperability concerns. In this article we'll describe how ZXTM 5.0 lets you hook up your company's web presence to tomorrow's internet without causing any nuisance for today's customers accessing your pages over IPv4. Read more...

ZXTM 5.0 allows you to inspect and manipulate both incoming and outgoing traffic with a customized version of Java's Servlet API. In this article we'll delve more deeply into some of the semantics of ZXTM's Java Extensions and show how to validate XML files in up- and in downloads using TrafficScript™ and Java Extensions. Read more...

This article examines how legitimate URLs are built, how malicious URLs can be made harder to detect by hexadecimal encoding, and, of course, how ZXTM and TrafficScript can be used to reject them anyway. Read more...