Attack‑Tree‑Driven Rate‑Limiting After a DDoS
We just survived a 2026 DDoS that hammered our public REST gateway. A botnet slammed a handful of endpoints with insane request rates, chewing through CPU and memory until real users hit time‑outs. The fallout was a frantic review of our throttling logic. Attack trees turned out to be the perfect tool to decide which endpoints need the tightest controls and how to enforce them without turning our API into a brick wall.
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