DDoS on Eknix — Web security & performance for the enterprisehttps://www.eknix.com/tags/ddos/Recent content in DDoS on Eknix — Web security & performance for the enterpriseHugoen-us© {year} EKNIX LTD. All rights reserved.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000Why Security and Performance Aren't a Trade-off Anymorehttps://www.eknix.com/blog/security-performance-tradeoff/Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.eknix.com/blog/security-performance-tradeoff/<p>There is a sentence that comes up in almost every architecture review, usually from someone who has been burned before. We are talking about turning on a WAF rule, or bot mitigation, or full inspection on an API, and someone leans back and says: &ldquo;Sure, but what&rsquo;s that going to cost us in latency?&rdquo; The question is reasonable. It is also, in 2026, mostly answering itself with a number close to zero, and that it still feels like a live trade-off is the most expensive piece of received wisdom in web operations.</p>