WEDOS | Banking & Financial Services DDoS Protection

WEDOS Protection for Banking & Financial Services

Resilience Is No Longer Optional. Neither Is Sovereignty.

Banking & Financial Services DDoS Protection

The Threat Profile Has Changed

Financial institutions have always been high-value targets. What has changed is the precision, persistence, and political dimension of the attacks. State-sponsored threat actors, hacktivist campaigns timed to market events, and ransom-driven DDoS operators all understand that a bank’s availability is not just a technical metric — it is a trust signal that, once disrupted publicly, is expensive to rebuild.

Modern attacks against financial services are rarely volumetric alone. They combine L3/L4 floods with simultaneous L7 application-layer probing — targeting online banking portals, trading APIs, payment processing endpoints, and customer authentication flows at the same time. The goal is not just downtime. It is to find the seam between your DDoS mitigation and your WAF that neither tool was designed to cover alone.

WEDOS Protection was built to close that seam.

What WEDOS Protection Delivers

Full-Stack Mitigation — L3 Through L7, Unified

A single platform covering volumetric network floods, protocol attacks, and application-layer threats simultaneously — with no handoff between separate tools and no gap in coverage between layers. SYN, UDP, and ICMP floods are absorbed at the anycast edge. HTTP floods, Slowloris, credential stuffing, and API abuse are handled by the AI-driven WAF before they reach your application tier.

JA4 TLS Fingerprinting for Financial Attack Patterns

Financial services are a primary target for sophisticated botnets that rotate IPs and UserAgents to evade detection. JA4 fingerprinting identifies malicious client profiles at the TLS handshake level — before any HTTP request is processed — based on the tooling and infrastructure signature rather than the surface-level attributes attackers can easily change. Threat intelligence gathered across the WEDOS platform is applied globally, meaning attack tooling identified targeting one institution is pre-emptively blocked across all protected domains.

API & Authentication Endpoint
Protection

Online banking portals, open banking APIs, payment processor integrations, and customer authentication flows are the highest-value targets within your application surface. WEDOS Protection supports per-endpoint and per-API rule configuration — applying tighter controls, lower rate limits, and stricter behavioural thresholds precisely where your exposure is greatest, without introducing friction for legitimate users.

Zero-Latency Scrubbing for Trading and Payment Environments

Latency is not just a user experience concern in financial services — it is a functional requirement. WEDOS Protection’s global anycast architecture routes traffic to the nearest scrubbing node, minimising round-trip time. For payment-critical flows and real-time trading environments, the protection layer is designed to be invisible to legitimate traffic in both availability and timing.

DORA Compliance — Built Into the Architecture

The Digital Operational Resilience Act came into full effect in January 2025. For banks, investment firms, payment institutions, and their ICT service providers, DORA establishes binding requirements around ICT risk management, incident classification and reporting, operational resilience testing, and third-party risk governance.

WEDOS Protection supports DORA compliance across several key obligations:

ICT risk management

Continuous monitoring, automated threat detection, and real-time traffic analysis provide the operational visibility DORA requires organisations to maintain over their ICT environment.

Incident detection and reporting

Audit-grade event logging with full forensic context — timestamped, categorised, and retained within EU jurisdiction — supports the major incident identification and reporting timelines DORA mandates.

Third-party ICT risk

WEDOS operates no third-party cloud infrastructure. Every component of the protection stack is owned and operated by WEDOS within the EU. This eliminates a significant concentration risk vector that regulators explicitly scrutinise under DORA’s third-party dependency requirements.

Resilience
testing

WEDOS engineers can support threat-led penetration testing and resilience assessment exercises aligned with DORA’s TLPT framework requirements.

EU Jurisdiction. No Exceptions.

For financial institutions

Operating under EU regulatory supervision, routing security-sensitive traffic through a platform subject to foreign law is an increasingly untenable risk position — both from a data governance standpoint and from a regulatory examination perspective.

Operated, and legally domiciled entirely within the EU

WEDOS Protection is designed, operated, and legally domiciled entirely within the European Union. All traffic scrubbing, TLS inspection, event logging, and configuration management occurs on EU-owned infrastructure under EU jurisdiction. No component of the platform is accessible under foreign legal instruments. No data leaves the EU.

Full third-party risk assessment documentation

For institutions where this needs to be documented — and under DORA, it does — we provide full third-party risk assessment documentation, contractual data processing agreements, and audit support packages as standard.

Operations & Integration

Activation

DNS record change only — no infrastructure changes, no downtime.

Onboarding

Fully managed by WEDOS security engineers, including traffic baseline profiling and initial rule tuning.

Monitoring

Real-time Grafana dashboard with full traffic visibility. SIEM-ready structured log export for integration with your SOC toolchain.

Support

24/7 with dedicated VIP escalation path. Guaranteed response SLA for financial sector clients.

API

Full WAPI REST API access for programmatic management and SOC automation.

Compliance documentation

DORA third-party risk package, ISO 27001 certificate, GDPR data processing agreement — available on request.

documentation: DORA third-party risk package, ISO 27001 certificate, GDPR data processing agreement — available on request.

Why Financial Institutions Choose WEDOS

No upstream dependency.

Every component built and operated by WEDOS — no third-party scrubbing capacity, no hyperscaler backbone, no vendor chain to audit beyond us.

EU sovereignty, legally documented.

Not a marketing claim — a contractual and architectural reality, with documentation to satisfy regulatory examination.

Operational credibility.

Built by an infrastructure operator protecting hundreds of thousands of domains across Europe, including regulated and sensitive environments. We understand what happens when protection fails at scale — because we built this platform to ensure it never did on our own network first.

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