Anti-DDoS Protection
Always-On DDoS Protection for Forex Infrastructure
Permanent, automatic mitigation against all attack types. Our VAC technology analyzes, absorbs, and filters malicious traffic in real time, keeping your MT4/MT5 servers online without interrupting legitimate traders.
Combined VAC Capacity
Network Bandwidth
Global Datacentres
Auto-Mitigation
Threat Intelligence
Bandwidth Saturation
The attacker floods your server's internet connection with enough traffic to saturate the pipe making the server unreachable to all users, regardless of server resource availability.
What Is a DDoS Attack?
Resource Exhaustion
The attacker overwhelms the machine's CPU, memory, or connection table stopping the operating system from processing legitimate requests even though bandwidth may be available.
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack aims to make a server, service, or infrastructure unavailable. Requests are sent in massive volumes simultaneously from multiple points across the internet, overwhelming server resources and making legitimate traffic impossible to process.
An attack can take different forms: it may saturate bandwidth to render the server unreachable, or overwhelm system resources to stop it from responding. As internet data volumes grow exponentially, DDoS attacks are becoming increasingly frequent, and increasingly targeted at financial infrastructure.
MQ Planet's anti-DDoS solution combines three distinct technologies: real-time packet analysis, high-capacity traffic vacuuming, and intelligent filtering, deployed simultaneously across 10 datacentres on 3 continents.
Application Layer Attacks
The attacker targets specific application services sending seemingly legitimate requests that consume disproportionate server-side processing resources to answer, degrading performance without large traffic volumes.
VAC Technology
Three Technologies. One Seamless Defence.
MQ Planet's VAC is a proprietary system that performs three distinct tasks in sequence
working together to ensure only legitimate traffic reaches your server.
Analysis
An attack is detected using real-time analysis of netflow data sent by routers analysing 1/2,000th of all passing traffic. The VAC compares packet characteristics against known DDoS signatures. The moment a similarity is detected, mitigation triggers automatically, within seconds.
Attack signatures analysed across all major protocols:
Vacuuming
Vacuuming is the feature that makes MQ Planet's anti-DDoS solution uniquely capable at scale. Once mitigation is triggered, all of the targeted server's incoming traffic is "vacuumed" redirected through our scrubbing infrastructure before it can reach your server.
This vacuuming happens across all 10 of our datacentres simultaneously, spread across three continents. The combined absorption capacity is over 4 Tbit/s enough to handle even nation-state-level volumetric attacks.
Capacity Breakdown
Mitigation
After vacuuming, the VAC performs deep packet filtering separating attack traffic from legitimate requests. Only clean, verified traffic is permitted to pass through and reach your server. The filtering process happens entirely transparently: your clients and traders experience no disruption to their sessions.
The process detection through to clean traffic delivery is called auto-mitigation. It is fully managed by MQ Planet with no manual intervention required from your team. There is no volume cap and no time limit on how long mitigation can remain active.
Key Guarantee
No limitations on attack volume or duration. Mitigation stays active for as long as the attack continues automatically.
Brokerage Context
Why Forex Brokers Are High-Value DDoS Targets
Financial infrastructure carries a specific attack profile that general-purpose DDoS
protection is not optimised for.
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Financial Damage Per Minute
Every minute your MT5 server is unreachable, your clients cannot execute trades. During major economic releases NFP, central bank decisions this represents significant direct financial harm to clients and reputational damage to your brokerage.
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Competitive Attack Motive
Unlike most industries, forex brokerages face attacks from commercially motivated actors competitors, disgruntled clients, or bad actors who profit from your unavailability. Attacks tend to cluster around high-volatility market periods deliberately.
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Regulatory Availability Obligations
Regulators including FCA, CySEC, and ASIC require brokers to maintain operational continuity. Repeated platform unavailability can trigger regulatory investigations regardless of cause making DDoS resilience a compliance requirement, not just a technical preference.
Brokerage-Specific Intelligence
Why Brokerages Can't Rely
on Generic DDoS Defense
Forex infrastructure faces attack patterns that general-purpose DDoS solutions weren't built to handle. During volatile news events, legitimate traffic spikes massively — often mirroring an attack signature. Generic protection mistakes real traders for bots, causing dropped connections and slippage. Our system knows the difference.
Generic DDoS Protection
MQ Planet Anti-DDoS
News & Market Open Surges
During NFP, rate decisions, and market opens, trading volume explodes. We recognise legitimate high-frequency surges and never throttle real traders while still dropping malicious floods running simultaneously.
Zero-Tolerance for Latency
In forex, milliseconds dictate profitability. Our mitigation routing adds near-zero latency, preventing the requotes, slippage, and execution failures that drive traders to competitors.
MT4/MT5 & FIX API Aware
Generic firewalls often block trading protocols outright. Our deep-packet inspection specifically understands MT4, MT5, and FIX API traffic patterns ensuring your liquidity bridges and trader connections stay live under any attack.
Regulatory Compliance Ready
Strict regulators require demonstrable operational resilience. We provide the uptime data and security reporting your compliance team needs to evidence platform availability and keep your license secure.
- Structured uptime & availability reporting
- Security incident logs with timestamps
- Mitigation records exportable for audit
Has Your Platform Been Attacked Before?
We've helped brokers recover and harden their infrastructure after DDoS incidents. Let's talk through your situation.
