Summary:
- Cloudflare, a web infrastructure and website security company, successfully mitigated the largest DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack ever recorded, with a peak of 11.5 Tbps (terabits per second).
- DDoS attacks are attempts to overwhelm a website or online service with traffic, causing it to become unavailable to legitimate users.
- Cloudflare's ability to handle this massive attack demonstrates their expertise in protecting websites and online services from such cyber threats.