But why isn't that always the case? And where do specialist mitigation services add value?

Well, this is one of the most persistent misconceptions in the market.

So I understand why it's like a big CDN brand feels like it's safety by association.

But let's think and let's remember that CDN and cloud provider, what are they built for? What is their purpose? Their core business is content delivery, caching, and maybe elastic computing scaling.

So getting your pages to load fast, letting your infrastructure grow on demand.

And security and DDoS mitigation specifically is bolted on as a secondary feature.

not the primary product that they are optimized for.

How does that work? How does having the proxy scrubbers in place work?

all right so um as i said from in the beginning let's start with the basics and then what do what do we mean by cdn or content accelerate acceleration in 2026 terms because i think we need to redefine so many things after we start implementing ai everywhere right so let's talk about cdn in 2026 26 and when should people think about using a cdn If it is a must-have or a nice-to-have solution today, what do you think, Andrey?

Well, it is indeed not only nice-to-have.

Nowadays, it's more or less obligatory because if you want to compete with different companies, you are mostly dependent on milliseconds.

And by milliseconds, I mean how fast your website loads at your customer.

So, the And here content delivery networks come into play.

So they are mostly geo-distributed systems of caching nodes that serve content from the location closest to the end users.

And this is their main goal.

And if I'm a security or infrastructure leader or if I'm the CISO of a company, when evaluating CDN, what benefits I should expect from such solutions?

And when should people think about using a CDN If it is a must-have or a nice-to-have solution today, what do you think, Andrey?

Well, it is indeed not only nice-to-have.

Nowadays, it's more or less obligatory because if you want to compete with different companies, you are mostly dependent on milliseconds.

And by milliseconds, I mean how fast your website loads at your customer.

So, the And here content delivery networks come into play.

So they are mostly geo-distributed systems of caching nodes that serve content from the location closest to the end users.

And this is their main goal.

I think that the customers would like to know this kind of details because they are the ones facing those attacks in their daily life and we are the ones trying to help them overcome it, right? And yeah, so speaking of the customers again, then they should see some value when they are purchasing, procuring a solution, right? And if I'm a security or infrastructure leader or if I'm the CISO of a company, when evaluating CDN, what benefits I should expect from such solutions?