Key Benefits:

Configuration of Smart Route can be achieved by a few simple steps via the Nexusguard Customer Portal UI. Smart Route Policy is a value added feature, designed and built to customize and optimize the user experience of website users. This is achieved by mapping and distributing website users’ geolocation to pre-assigned Nexusguard scrubbing centers to ensure optimal network latency and increased reliability. 

When there’s a large DDoS attack targeting a single website, there might be hundreds of customers affected during that attack. This is where the Warzone feature within Smart Route Policy comes into play. The Warzone is a dedicated VIP pool in which the attack is redirected to, and used to isolate the under attack website from other websites, so as to allow Security Operations Centre (SOC) teams to continue handling and mitigating that attack effectively without causing impacts to other customers. Furthermore, end-users of other websites not caught in the attack zone can continue to enjoy the optimized geolocation experience as was intended and designed for them during peacetime.

For end-users from countries that do not match any rules defined in the list, their traffic will always be distributed to the Default Rule, which is in essence a global (anycast) VIP pool, and also the base policy that comes with the standard AP plan. 

Another feature of Smart Route Policy is the in-built health check function which ensures that traffic is distributed to healthy scrubbing centres only. In the event that a scrubbing centre is under maintenance or unavailable for whatever reason, its status is quickly identified by the health check function. The optimized rules are temporarily disabled automatically without the need for SOC intervention until the service of the scrubbing centre is reinstated. Moreover, website access remains totally unaffected during the period when the associated optimization rules are temporarily unavailable.