Is Your CDN Secure? CDN vs. DDoS Mitigation Unpacked with Qrator Labs

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.

So this is the kind of server that sits almost near the end user.

and allows him to get your information as fast as possible.

Mostly we are talking about static content, but dynamic can be cached as well with some remarks.

So the core capabilities of it is HTTP request caching and content prefetching as well.

CDN may serve nowadays lots of different purposes.

For example, it may compress your data on its own and provide your customers the compression algorithm they support.

There are Some of them that are quite hard to compute on the server side.

So if you will do it on your own, your servers might

overflow with requests.

And as well, CDN nodes, as they serve HTTP traffic, they can filter traffic to some extent.

So we're talking about rate limiting, geobalancing, georouting, and so on.

Yeah, and I also like to frame CDN always like this.

It's not just a faster website.

I think it also gives the organization a greater stability under the peak times, under load, and also keeping other services reachable.

And speaking of other services, I know that your solution, Curator Labs, is often perceived as a web application protection tool or a DDoS protection tool.