Use Case
DDoS Protection for
Financial Services
Financial services are among the highest-value DDoS targets in the world. Regulatory requirements demand incident documentation and rapid response. Downtime does not just cost revenue — it erodes customer trust, triggers compliance reviews, and creates regulatory exposure. Flowtriq provides sub-second detection, automated response, and audit-grade incident reports built for the demands of fintech.
The Problem
Financial platforms face a unique threat landscape
Financial services companies are disproportionately targeted by DDoS attacks. Extortion campaigns demand payment to stop an ongoing flood. Competitors launch attacks during market-moving events. Hacktivists target payment processors and crypto exchanges to make political statements. The motivations are varied, but the impact is always severe.
Beyond the direct cost of downtime, financial services face regulatory consequences that other industries do not. PCI-DSS requires documented incident response procedures. SOC 2 audits demand evidence of security controls and incident handling. Regulators expect timely notification and thorough documentation of any security event that impacts availability.
Most DDoS mitigation tools were not built with compliance in mind. They stop attacks but do not generate the audit trail, forensic evidence, or incident reports that your compliance team needs. When an auditor asks for documentation of your last security incident, you should not be scrambling to reconstruct a timeline from memory.
• Ransom DDoS (RDDoS) extortion
• Competitive disruption during trading
• Hacktivism against financial targets
• Distraction for data exfiltration
Compliance Requirements
• PCI-DSS: incident response documentation
• SOC 2: security event monitoring evidence
• FFIEC: cybersecurity assessment framework
• GDPR: availability as data protection
Consequences
• Regulatory fines and audit findings
• Customer trust erosion
• Trading losses during outages
How Flowtriq Helps
Detection, mitigation, and the audit trail to prove it
Flowtriq detects DDoS attacks within one second and activates a multi-layer mitigation chain automatically. Kernel-level firewall rules provide the first line of defense. For larger attacks, BGP FlowSpec filters traffic at the network edge, and cloud scrubbing absorbs volumetric floods upstream. Your API gateway, trading engine, and payment processing endpoints stay responsive throughout. Zero downtime means zero regulatory exposure from availability incidents.
Every action Flowtriq takes is logged in a tamper-evident audit trail. Incident detection, classification, mitigation rules applied, alert notifications sent, and resolution timestamps are all recorded. When your auditor asks for evidence of your incident response capabilities, you hand them a Flowtriq report.
PCAP capture provides packet-level forensic evidence for every incident. Download full packet captures for analysis by your security team, share them with law enforcement for RDDoS extortion cases, or archive them for compliance documentation. Every incident is fully reconstructable from the forensic record.
11:42:01 PPS=520,000 BPS=14Gbps THRESHOLD
T+0.1s Incident opened · DNS Amplification · 98%
T+0.2s PCAP capture start · pre-attack baseline
T+0.3s Auto-mitigation · nftables drop
T+0.4s Audit log entry · all actions recorded
T+0.5s Alerts fired · PagerDuty · Email
11:42:02 PPS=8,400 BPS=328Mbps MITIGATED
Platform uptime: 100%
Audit trail: complete
PCAP evidence: archived
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Key Features
Built for compliance-driven organizations
Audit-grade incident reports
Every incident generates a detailed report with timestamps, traffic volumes, attack classification, confidence scores, mitigation actions, and resolution timeline. Reports are formatted for compliance reviews, SOC 2 audits, and regulatory inquiries. Export as PDF or access via API.
PCAP forensic capture
Full packet capture starts automatically with every incident, including pre-attack baseline traffic. Download PCAPs for forensic analysis by your security team, share with law enforcement for extortion cases, or archive for compliance documentation. Every incident is fully reconstructable.
4-level auto-escalation
Flowtriq applies a 4-level mitigation chain automatically: kernel-level firewall rules for immediate local defense, BGP FlowSpec for surgical network-edge filtering, RTBH for targeted prefix black-holing, and upstream cloud scrubbing via Cloudflare Magic Transit, OVH VAC, or your preferred provider for volumetric floods. Each tier escalates automatically based on attack severity — no manual intervention required.
Comprehensive audit log
Every detection event, configuration change, user action, and mitigation rule is logged with timestamps and user attribution. The audit log provides the evidence trail that SOC 2, PCI-DSS, and financial regulators expect from your security controls.
24/7 automated detection
The FTAgent monitors traffic every second, around the clock, without human intervention. Attacks at 3 AM on a holiday weekend are detected and mitigated with the same speed as attacks during business hours. No on-call fatigue, no missed alerts, no gaps in coverage.
SIEM integration
Forward incident data to your SIEM via webhooks in real time. Integrate with Splunk, Elastic, Sumo Logic, or any platform that accepts HTTP webhooks. Pull historical data via the REST API for custom dashboards and correlation with other security events.
Getting Started
Deploy Flowtriq across your financial infrastructure
Lightweight agent deployment with no inline appliances, no DNS changes, and no traffic rerouting. Your architecture stays the same.
Create your workspace and invite your security team
Sign up and create a workspace for your organization. Invite your security engineers as admins, your SRE team as analysts, and your compliance officers as read-only users. Role-based access ensures everyone sees what they need. The 7-day free trial includes full access to all features.
Deploy agents on critical infrastructure
Install the FTAgent on your API gateways, payment processing servers, trading engines, and database hosts. The agent uses under 0.1% CPU and 30MB RAM with zero impact on latency-sensitive financial workloads. Deploy via your existing configuration management tools.
Connect alerting and SIEM integration
Route alerts to PagerDuty for your on-call security engineer. Forward incident data to your SIEM via webhooks for correlation with other security events. Set up escalation policies that match your incident response procedures and regulatory requirements.
Enable firewall rules and PCAP capture
Turn on firewall rules for your public-facing endpoints. Enable PCAP capture for forensic evidence collection. Configure retention policies for incident reports and audit logs to meet your compliance requirements. Flowtriq begins learning your traffic baselines immediately.
By the Numbers
Security metrics that satisfy auditors
Before & After
How Flowtriq transforms your security posture
Without Flowtriq
- Attacks detected minutes after impact
- Manual incident response under pressure
- No forensic evidence for post-incident review
- Audit findings for inadequate monitoring
- Regulatory exposure from availability incidents
- Incident reports reconstructed from memory
- Compliance team scrambles during audits
With Flowtriq
- Sub-second automated detection and response
- Zero-touch mitigation for known attack patterns
- Full PCAP forensics for every incident
- Audit trail satisfies SOC 2 and PCI-DSS
- 100% uptime during mitigated attacks
- Detailed incident reports generated automatically
- Compliance documentation always audit-ready
Pricing
Enterprise-grade protection, transparent pricing
Audit logs, PCAP forensics, incident reports, and SIEM integration included at every tier. No per-feature upsells. Unlimited team seats so your security, engineering, and compliance teams all have access. No contracts required.
FAQ
Questions from financial services teams
How does Flowtriq help with SOC 2 and PCI-DSS compliance?
Flowtriq provides documented evidence of continuous security monitoring, automated incident detection, and incident response capabilities. Every incident includes a timestamped audit trail of detection, classification, mitigation actions, and resolution. These reports map directly to SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria (CC7.2, CC7.3, CC7.4) and PCI-DSS Requirement 12.10 for incident response. Your compliance team can export reports on demand for auditors.
Where is my data stored?
Flowtriq processes traffic metrics and incident data in our cloud infrastructure. The FTAgent runs on your servers and transmits only aggregate metrics (packets per second, bytes per second, protocol distribution) to our cloud. Raw packet data from PCAP captures is stored on your server and only uploaded when you explicitly request it. No customer application data is ever transmitted to Flowtriq.
Can I integrate Flowtriq with my SIEM?
Yes. Flowtriq sends structured incident data via webhooks in real time. Forward events to Splunk, Elastic Security, Sumo Logic, Microsoft Sentinel, or any SIEM that accepts HTTP webhooks. Webhook payloads include incident ID, timestamps, attack classification, traffic volumes, mitigation actions, and affected node details for correlation with your other security data sources.
Does Flowtriq protect API gateways and trading systems?
Yes. Install the FTAgent on any Linux server, including API gateways, trading engines, matching engines, and payment processing hosts. The agent monitors network traffic at the kernel level without adding latency to your application. For latency-sensitive trading systems, the agent's sub-millisecond overhead is negligible compared to network round-trip times.
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