Proactive Defense Testing

DDoS Stress Testing. Know Your Limits Before Attackers Do.

Simulate real-world DDoS attacks in a controlled environment. Identify infrastructure weaknesses, validate your defenses, and ensure business continuity—before a real attack takes you offline.

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L4 & L7 Testing
Multi-Gigabit Capacity
Safe & Controlled
Detailed Reports
The Reality

DDoS attacks are inevitable.

Attackers can launch devastating DDoS attacks for as little as $5/hour. The question isn't if you'll be targeted—it's whether you're prepared.

$5/hr
Cost to launch a DDoS attack
$22K
Lost per minute of downtime
400%
Increase in DDoS attacks since 2020
15+ Tbps
Largest recorded DDoS attack
We Understand

The challenges keeping you vulnerable

Whether you're a CISO proving resilience to the board, a CTO ensuring uptime, or a CEO protecting revenue—these concerns keep leaders up at night.

Unknown capacity limits

You don't know how much traffic your infrastructure can actually handle until it's too late.

Untested defenses

You've invested in DDoS mitigation, but have never validated if it actually works under real attack conditions.

Downtime means revenue loss

Every minute offline costs money. E-commerce, SaaS, and financial services can lose $5K-$100K per hour.

Customer trust at stake

Repeated outages erode customer confidence. Your competitors are just one click away.

DDoS as a smokescreen

Sophisticated attackers use DDoS to distract your team while launching data exfiltration or ransomware.

Compliance requirements

Regulations like NIS2, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001 require documented resilience testing and incident preparedness.

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Understanding The Threat

What is a DDoS Attack?

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack occurs when attackers flood your infrastructure with malicious traffic from thousands of compromised devices (botnets). The goal is simple: overwhelm your systems until they can't serve legitimate users. Modern DDoS attacks can reach terabits per second and can take down even well-resourced organizations.

  • Volumetric Attacks: Flood bandwidth with massive data volumes (UDP floods, amplification)
  • Protocol Attacks: Exploit network protocol weaknesses (SYN floods, Ping of Death)
  • Application Layer: Target specific services with sophisticated requests (HTTP floods, Slowloris)
  • Multi-Vector: Combine attack types to maximize impact and evade simple defenses
Why Stress Test

Benefits that matter to your

DDoS stress testing delivers value across technical and business stakeholders.

Know Your Breaking Point

Discover exactly how much traffic your infrastructure can handle before degradation or failure occurs.

For Technical Teams

Precise capacity metrics per component: load balancers, firewalls, application servers, databases

For Executives

Clear risk quantification: "We can handle X Gbps before service degradation"

Validate Your Defenses

Confirm that your DDoS mitigation solutions actually work when you need them most.

For Technical Teams

Test CDN, WAF, scrubbing center, and rate limiting configurations under real conditions

For Executives

ROI validation on security investments with documented protection levels

Reduce Response Time

Train your team to respond effectively with documented runbooks and practiced procedures.

For Technical Teams

Refined escalation procedures, tested failover mechanisms, and optimized detection rules

For Executives

Faster mean-time-to-recovery (MTTR) reducing business impact and customer complaints

Optimize Performance

Stress testing often reveals performance bottlenecks that affect everyday operations.

For Technical Teams

Identify and fix misconfigurations, resource constraints, and single points of failure

For Executives

Improved user experience and infrastructure efficiency beyond security benefits

Meet Compliance Requirements

Document resilience testing for auditors, regulators, and cyber insurance providers.

For Technical Teams

Technical evidence packages with test methodology, results, and remediation tracking

For Executives

Audit-ready reports satisfying NIS2, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, and insurance requirements

Avoid Emergency Costs

Proactive testing costs a fraction of emergency incident response during a real attack.

For Technical Teams

Planned testing windows vs. unpredictable emergency firefighting

For Executives

Predictable security investment vs. unbudgeted crisis response costs

Service Options

Choose your testing approach

We offer comprehensive DDoS stress testing across network and application layers, tailored to your infrastructure and objectives.

20M+ Requests/sec
100+ Gbps Traffic Volume
🌍 Global Sources

Bandwidth Saturation

Test your network's ability to handle massive traffic volumes that consume all available bandwidth.

UDP flood simulations ICMP flood testing Amplification attack scenarios Link saturation analysis

Protocol Exhaustion

Stress test network equipment and servers with protocol-level attacks that exhaust connection tables.

SYN flood testing TCP connection exhaustion Fragmentation attacks State table stress testing

Firewall & Load Balancer

Validate that your network security devices can handle attack traffic without becoming bottlenecks.

Firewall capacity testing Load balancer failover IPS/IDS performance Rate limiting validation

All tests are conducted safely with pre-agreed rules of engagement and real-time monitoring. Discuss your requirements →

Our Methodology

How we conduct DDoS stress tests

A structured, safe approach that delivers actionable insights without risking your production environment.

01
Day 1-2

Scoping & Planning

We work together to define objectives, identify targets, and establish safety parameters and success criteria.

Infrastructure inventory review Target system identification Attack vector selection Safety thresholds definition Communication protocols Rollback procedures
02
Day 3

Baseline Assessment

Before testing, we establish performance baselines and verify monitoring is in place.

Performance baseline capture Monitoring validation Alert configuration review Stakeholder notification Go/No-Go confirmation
03
Day 4-5

Controlled Testing

Execute DDoS simulations with real-time monitoring and immediate stop capability.

Progressive traffic ramp-up Multi-vector attack simulation Real-time performance monitoring Live analyst supervision Immediate pause capability
04
Day 6-7

Analysis & Reporting

Comprehensive analysis of results with prioritized recommendations for improvement.

Capacity threshold analysis Bottleneck identification Defense effectiveness scoring Executive summary Technical recommendations Remediation roadmap
What You Receive

Comprehensive deliverables, actionable insights

Everything you need to understand your resilience posture and improve your defenses.

Executive Summary

Board-ready overview of your DDoS resilience posture with risk ratings and business impact analysis.

  • Risk scoring
  • Business impact
  • Compliance status

Capacity Analysis

Detailed breakdown of your infrastructure's capacity limits across all tested components.

  • Threshold data
  • Bottleneck mapping
  • Scaling recommendations

Defense Effectiveness

Assessment of how well your DDoS mitigation solutions performed under attack conditions.

  • Mitigation success rates
  • Detection timing
  • False positive analysis

Performance Metrics

Real-time graphs and data showing system behavior throughout the testing period.

  • Response times
  • Error rates
  • Resource utilization

Technical Findings

Detailed technical analysis with specific vulnerabilities and misconfigurations identified.

  • Root cause analysis
  • Configuration gaps
  • Protocol weaknesses

Remediation Roadmap

Prioritized action plan with specific recommendations to improve your DDoS resilience.

  • Quick wins
  • Strategic improvements
  • Budget guidance
Industries We Serve

Critical for availability-dependent businesses

Any organization where downtime means lost revenue, customer trust, or regulatory consequences.

E-Commerce

Financial Services

SaaS Platforms

Gaming & Streaming

Healthcare

Government

Hosting & ISPs

Critical Infrastructure

Common Questions

Frequently asked questions

Yes, when properly authorized. We only test systems you own or have explicit written permission to test. All engagements include formal authorization documentation, defined scope, and rules of engagement. We never target third-party infrastructure without their consent.
We design tests to be controlled and safe. Testing is typically scheduled during maintenance windows, and we maintain real-time communication with your team. We can immediately halt testing if unexpected issues arise. Many clients choose to test staging environments first before production.
Our infrastructure can generate over 100 Gbps of volumetric traffic and 20+ million requests per second for application-layer attacks. Traffic originates from globally distributed sources to simulate realistic attack scenarios. We scale testing intensity to match your objectives.
Yes, we strongly recommend notifying relevant providers before testing. This prevents false-positive incident responses and ensures you don't violate provider terms of service. We can help you draft notification letters and coordinate timing with your vendors.
A standard DDoS stress test engagement takes 5-7 business days: 1-2 days for scoping and planning, 1 day for baseline assessment, 1-2 days of actual testing, and 1-2 days for analysis and reporting. Complex multi-site or multi-application tests may take longer.
Perfect—we'll validate that it works! Many organizations discover their mitigation solutions have configuration gaps, capacity limitations, or don't cover all attack vectors. Stress testing is the only way to know if your protection investment actually delivers when you need it.
Yes, with proper authorization. Cloud providers have specific policies for security testing. We'll guide you through the notification requirements (e.g., AWS doesn't require pre-approval for most tests, Azure has a penetration testing notification form). We ensure compliance with provider policies.
Multiple safety measures: defined escalation thresholds, real-time monitoring of your systems, direct communication channel with your team, immediate pause capability, and documented rollback procedures. Our analysts supervise every test and can halt within seconds if needed.

"We thought our DDoS protection was solid until Bit Sentinel's stress test revealed our application servers would fail at just 40% of our expected capacity. They identified three critical bottlenecks our vendors had missed. Six months later, we successfully weathered a real attack with zero customer impact."

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Infrastructure Director

European FinTech

Safe, Legal, Professional

All testing conducted by certified professionals with documented authorization

CREST Certified ISO 27001 Fully Insured NDA Protected

Don't Wait for Attackers to Test Your Defenses

Every day without stress testing is another day of uncertainty. Find out exactly how resilient your infrastructure really is—before a real attack proves you wrong.

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