Abstract: Technologies related to mitigation of volumetric distributed denial of service attacks are disclosed. Malicious network connection request detection can be performed using a first network traffic management module (NTMM) that executes before network connection resources are allocated and a second NTMM that executes after connection resource allocation. The second NTMM can be used to determine whether a connection request is from a potential bad actor. If the request is from a potential bad actor, the second NTMM can add an identifier for the potential bad actor to a list of potential bad actors. When a subsequent connection request is received, the first NTMM can generate the identifier based on the subsequent request and determine whether it is stored in the list of potential bad actors. If it is, the first NTMM can drop the subsequent request before connection resources for establishing the second request are allocated.

Abstract: Technologies related to mitigation of volumetric distributed denial of service attacks are disclosed. Malicious network connection request detection can be performed using a first network traffic management module (NTMM) that executes before network connection resources are allocated and a second NTMM that executes after connection resource allocation. The second NTMM can be used to determine whether a connection request is from a potential bad actor. If the request is from a potential bad actor, the second NTMM can add an identifier for the potential bad actor to a list of potential bad actors. When a subsequent connection request is received, the first NTMM can generate the identifier based on the subsequent request and determine whether it is stored in the list of potential bad actors. If it is, the first NTMM can drop the subsequent request before connection resources for establishing the second request are allocated.