SANTA CLARA, Calif., August 11, 2026 – NSFOCUS has been honored with the Frost & Sullivan 2026 Global Anti-DDoS Competitive Strategy Leadership Award, recognizing the company’s forward-looking market strategy, sustained technological innovation, and long-term commitment to delivering customer value.
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The Competitive Strategy Leadership Award recognizes enterprises that demonstrate exceptional performance in strategic vision, market execution, and continuous innovation. More importantly, the award reflects an enterprise’s ability to anticipate industry trends and consistently deliver long-term value to customers.
As digital transformation continues to accelerate—driven by advances in artificial intelligence, cloud computing, 5G, and the digital economy，organizations are becoming increasingly dependent on resilient and secure network infrastructure. At the same time, the DDoS threat landscape continues to evolve in both scale and sophistication. According to Frost & Sullivan, the volume and scale of DDoS attacks have continued to grow in recent years, with attack traffic repeatedly reaching record-breaking levels. Large-scale botnets are increasingly being leveraged to launch persistent, high-frequency, and multi-vector attacks, making sophisticated DDoS become the new normal. Meanwhile, the ongoing shortage of cybersecurity professionals and the rising cost of security operations have fundamentally changed how enterprises evaluate DDoS protection. Enterprises today require not only stronger mitigation capabilities, but also security architectures that can be continuously operated, optimized, and adapted to address the evolving threat landscape. As a result, customer expectations for Anti-DDoS solutions have undergone a fundamental shift. In the past, purchasing decisions were primarily driven by appliance performance, mitigation capacity, and hardware specifications. Today, enterprises place greater emphasis on comprehensive security operations capabilities—such as delivering unified protection across on-premises data centers, public clouds, multi-cloud environments, and edge networks; accelerating threat detection, analysis, and response during sophisticated attacks; leveraging automation and AI to simplify operations and improve security team productivity; and ultimately achieving sustainable long-term returns on security investments while ensuring business continuity.
In other words, customers are no longer simply looking for higher-performance DDoS mitigation appliances. Instead, they require an integrated security framework that spans the entire lifecycle of detection, analysis, protection, operations, and security services. Recognizing this industry transformation, NSFOCUS has remained firmly committed to a customer-centric approach, continuously evolving its Anti-DDoS portfolio from delivering product capabilities to enabling operational capabilities. By integrating on-premises protection, cloud-based mitigation, AI-powered security operations, and professional security services into a unified solution, NSFOCUS helps organizations build a more intelligent, resilient, and sustainable cyber defense architecture. This long-term vision has been a cornerstone of NSFOCUS’ strategy and is also a key reason why the company received the 2026 Global Anti-DDoS Competitive Strategy Leadership Award from Frost & Sullivan.
From the protection architectural perspective, NSFOCUS remains committed to an open and flexible hybrid deployment strategy. Unlike solutions that rely solely on on-premises hardware or cloud-based scrubbing, the NSFOCUS Anti-DDoS solution supports multiple deployment models—including on-premises mitigation, cloud-based mitigation, and hybrid deployment. This enables organizations to choose the deployment model that best aligns with their business scale, network architecture, and compliance requirements while managing security policies and operations through a unified intelligent platform. This flexible architecture addresses the diverse requirements of customers across different industries—including financial institutions, telecommunications, government, and Internet service providers, while providing the scalability needed to support future business growth and digital transformation. Beyond building a comprehensive protection architecture, NSFOCUS continues to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence across its Anti-DDoS portfolio, further enhancing both detection capabilities and security operations.
At the device layer, intelligence is driven by lightweight AI models embedded within the NSFOCUS Network Traffic Analyzer (NTA) and the NSFOCUS Anti-DDoS System (ADS). As traffic enters the protection pipeline, these AI models immediately perform baseline learning, traffic feature extraction, abnormal behavior detection, and attack classification. By continuously learning normal business traffic patterns alongside evolving attack behaviors, the models steadily improve their ability to detect slow-rate attacks, encrypted C&C communications, and emerging DDoS attack techniques. This enables higher detection accuracy without compromising real-time performance, while providing more precise attack intelligence for downstream mitigation policy generation.
At the operations layer, the NSFOCUS Anti-DDoS Business Operations System (ADBOS) serves as the intelligent operations hub, deeply integrating with the NSFOCUS Security Large Language Model (SecLLM) to embed AI throughout the day-to-day Anti-DDoS operational workflow. Together, they deliver an AI-powered operations assistant capable of supporting multiple scenarios, including attack investigation, response recommendations, mitigation policy generation, protection effectiveness evaluation, operational analytics, knowledge assistance, and automated report generation. The platform automatically correlates historical attack events, business assets, threat intelligence, and operational experience to perform intelligent attack analysis and assessment, generate actionable mitigation recommendations, and continuously evaluate protection effectiveness. This creates an intelligent closed-loop workflow spanning event detection, threat analysis, policy generation, automated optimization, and operational review, significantly improving security operations efficiency while enabling organizations to focus their limited security resources on higher-value decision-making. Through the combination of real-time device-level detection, AI-powered traffic analysis, intelligent decision-making driven by large language models, and continuous collaboration between on-premises and cloud-based threat intelligence, NSFOCUS has established an intelligent defense framework that seamlessly connects real-time protection with continuous security operations. Rather than relying solely on traditional rule-based mitigation, the solution continuously learns, adapts, and optimizes its defense strategies over time, helping organizations build a more proactive, resilient, and intelligent cybersecurity posture against the evolving DDoS threat landscape.
Looking ahead, NSFOCUS will remain committed to its customer-centric philosophy, continuing to strengthen the integration of AI and Anti-DDoS technologies while advancing the coordinated evolution of intelligent devices, intelligent platforms, and threat intelligence. By continuously enhancing its intelligent security operations framework, NSFOCUS aims to help organizations achieve end-to-end security across the entire protection lifecycle—from real-time detection and precise mitigation to continuous security operations. At the same time, NSFOCUS will continue to expand its global presence and strengthen collaboration with partners worldwide to build an open, intelligent, and sustainable security ecosystem. Through continuous innovation, the company remains dedicated to delivering advanced cybersecurity solutions that help customers safeguard critical digital infrastructure, ensure business continuity, and support the sustainable growth of the global digital economy.
