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title: "Traffic floods and harmful bots"
description: "Traffic floods and harmful bots, family Threats, NIS2 Art. 21(2)(e)"
url: https://www.alt-f1.be/en/table/dd/
organization: ALT-F1 SRL, Brussels (VAT BE 0830.560.718)
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# Traffic floods and harmful bots

Short label: DDoS

Family: Threats · NIS2 Art. 21(2)(e)
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## Meaning

A traffic flood tries to overwhelm a service. Harmful bots automate activities such as trying stolen passwords or copying prices.

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## Why it matters

These activities can interrupt sales, consume resources or misuse customer accounts.

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## What you can do

Identify important websites and sign-in paths. Agree filtering, traffic-flood protection and the response to unusual activity.

## Services that can help

Web App Shield provides the protection features included in the selected plan. Coverage and mitigation commitments are defined in the service agreement.

- [Web App Shield](https://www.alt-f1.be/en/web-shield.md)

## Official reference — NIS2 Art. 21(2)(e)

> 2. The measures referred to in paragraph 1 shall be based on an all-hazards approach that aims to protect network and information systems and the physical environment of those systems from incidents, and shall include at least the following:
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> — Directive (EU) 2022/2555 (NIS2), Art. 21(2)

> (e) security in network and information systems acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling and disclosure;
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> — Directive (EU) 2022/2555 (NIS2), Art. 21(2)(e)

**What this reference concerns:** Security must be built in when you buy, build or maintain systems, and known vulnerabilities must be handled and disclosed.

[Read the article on EUR-Lex](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32022L2555#art_21) · Official text, quoted from the Official Journal of the EU