65%
Odsetek ankietowanych Polaków deklarujących korzystanie z narzędzi AI według raportu „E-commerce w Polsce 2026”
IAB Polska2026Poland
Overwhelming a service with traffic from multiple machines at once, causing it to stop responding to regular users. It doesn’t steal data — it cuts off access.
Why it matters
An hour of downtime on a campaign launch day costs more than a year of protection. For news sites, it also means losing search engine rankings.
What's missing without it
Without protective layers (CDN with filtering, request limits), a single determined attacker can take a service offline for several hours.
When it is used
When planning infrastructure for a campaign, live event, or publishing high-profile content.
How we use it
Distinguished from normal traffic spikes by distribution: thousands of IP addresses, identical requests, no human behavior patterns.
Numbers worth knowing
Technical in data
470 000 000 000
IDC Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide 2026 V2 prognozuje, że europejskie wydatki na AI osiągną blisko 470 mld dolarów do 2030 roku
IDC09/2026Europe
470 000 000 000
Prognozowane całkowite wydatki na AI w Europie w 2030 roku według IDC Worldwide AI and Generative AI Spending Guide 2026 V2
IDC09/2026Europe
Figures from the same field — collected in our market data base.