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Mike Ripley: So this is kind of moving on to our recommendations and best practices section. And so you know, what this really means for any organization is to understand that security is a process. Right. It's not a simple I want, you know, you're going to buy a single product and it's going to solve all of your problems. You're not going to be able to turn on a specific feature, and it's going to solve all your problems. It really requires a very, you know, multi-layered approach. And so at Cloudflare, what we've done is we, you know, find it important for us to have that, you know, multiple layers of defense. So whether it's, you know, firewall capabilities, whether it's being able to detect bots, whether it's being able to help our customers, you know, protect their APIs or, you know, caching to do other types of, you know, defensive strategies. That's important for us. And so we've put together this list of recommendations to help you and your organization optimize against DDoS attacks. And you can actually find a lot of this information on our website. So whether you want to, you know, secure your applications or prevent DDoS attacks, we have a lot of that information there. So, you know, I won't necessarily go through all of these, but the main things is, you know, you're looking at a DDoS service, you want to make sure that it's inline and that it meets your performance requirements. Right? The main thing there being really around, is it performant? Does it give you that level of latency that you require? Right. Because is the, you know, service able to scale with your growth and grow with your network? And are you able to be alerted about, you know, different ongoing issues or anomalies that you're seeing? And then, of course, being able to block off the bad traffic and then only allowing the good traffic. I know that sounds very simple, but that's, you know, very important. And then, of course, the very first line of defense is really around, you know, educating and preparing your teams, having a proper response plan in place. So that should an attack happen or an incident happen, your team knows what knows what to do, who to communicate with, and then what are the next steps as a part of that?
