CoreDetection™: Smart DDoS Detection That Never Blocks Your Real Users

Every DDoS protection provider claims they can stop attacks. But here’s the question most don’t answer: what happens to your real users during an attack?

Traditional detection systems use simple traffic thresholds — when bandwidth spikes, they trigger mitigation. The problem? A viral marketing campaign, a game launch, or a flash sale looks exactly the same as a DDoS attack to a threshold-based system. The result: your real customers get blocked.

CoreDetection™ was built to solve this exact problem.

What Makes CoreDetection™ Different

CoreDetection™ doesn’t just look at how much traffic you’re receiving — it analyzes how that traffic behaves. It understands the difference between 10,000 real users rushing to your site and 10,000 bots trying to take it down.

This means:

• Your legitimate users are never blocked — even during massive traffic spikes
• Attacks are detected faster — behavioral patterns are visible before thresholds are breached
• Repeat attacks are recognized instantly — the system remembers and adapts

Key Features

Zero False Positives

CoreDetection™ knows the difference between a DDoS attack and a viral moment. When your website goes trending on social media, traditional systems would flag it as an attack and start dropping traffic. CoreDetection™ recognizes that the traffic is coming from real browsers, diverse geographic locations, and legitimate networks — and lets it through.

How? The system maintains a trusted network intelligence layer. Traffic from major CDN providers like Cloudflare, Google, Akamai, and AWS is recognized automatically. If a traffic spike is dominated by these trusted sources, it’s almost certainly legitimate — and CoreDetection™ adjusts accordingly.

Sub-Second Attack Recognition

When a DDoS attack matches a pattern CoreDetection™ has seen before, detection happens in under one second. The system maintains a memory of every confirmed attack signature — source patterns, protocol mix, geographic distribution — and compares new traffic against this database in real-time.

This means the second time an attacker targets you with the same method, mitigation starts before the attack has time to ramp up.

Intelligent Attack Classification

Not all attacks are created equal. CoreDetection™ classifies every detected threat with a specific severity level:

• CRITICAL — Large-scale volumetric attacks requiring immediate mitigation
• HIGH — Significant attacks that could impact service if unchecked
• MEDIUM — Moderate threats under active monitoring
• LOW — Minor anomalies being tracked

Each classification includes the attack type (UDP Flood, SYN Flood, DNS Reflection, HTTP Flood, Slowloris, and more), giving your team instant clarity on what’s happening.

Automatic Mitigation Triggers

When CoreDetection™ confirms an attack, it doesn’t wait for human intervention. It automatically:

1. Fires a webhook notification to your Slack, Discord, Teams, or custom endpoint
2. Generates CoreEdge™ firewall rules tailored to the specific attack vector
3. Deploys those rules globally across all scrubbing nodes
4. Continues monitoring and adjusts the response as the attack evolves

The entire process — from first malicious packet to full mitigation — happens in under 60 seconds for known attack patterns.

Full Layer Coverage: L3 Through L7

CoreDetection™ doesn’t just handle volumetric floods. It covers the full attack spectrum:

Real-Time Visibility in Your Dashboard

Every detection event is fully transparent in the Client Portal:

• Live attack feed — see attacks as they happen with per-second traffic graphs
• Source analysis — top attacking IPs, their ASNs, and geographic origin
• Detection reasoning — understand exactly why CoreDetection™ classified the traffic
• Historical data — review past attacks and detection patterns over time

There’s no black box. Your security team sees exactly what CoreDetection™ sees.

Instant Notifications via Webhooks

The moment an attack is detected, your team knows. CoreDetection™ pushes real-time alerts to:

• Slack — dedicated channel alerts with full attack details
• Discord — server notifications for gaming and community teams
• Microsoft Teams — enterprise SOC integration
• Custom HTTP endpoints — feed data directly into your SIEM, PagerDuty, or automation platform

Each notification includes the target IP, attack type, severity, bandwidth, packets per second, and source distribution — everything your team needs to make informed decisions.

The Result

Since deploying CoreDetection™, our customers consistently report:

• Zero false positive blocks — legitimate traffic is never disrupted
• 50-70% fewer unnecessary alerts — your team focuses on real threats, not noise
• Detection before impact — attacks are caught during ramp-up, before they affect service
• Full attack transparency — every event is documented with complete forensic detail

How It Works With CoreEdge™

CoreDetection™ is the brain. CoreEdge™ is the muscle. When CoreDetection™ identifies an attack, it generates precise filtering rules that CoreEdge™ deploys at the NIC level using eBPF/XDP technology. Attack traffic is dropped in nanoseconds — before it ever reaches your servers.

This two-product architecture means detection intelligence and mitigation power are always working together, providing a complete defense without any manual intervention.

Start Your Free Trial

Every new CoreTech customer gets a 10-day free trial with full CoreDetection™ and CoreEdge™ protection active from day one. No credit card required. No traffic limits during the trial.

See for yourself why our customers never go back to threshold-based detection.

Contact our team to get started.