Deflect is a robust and innovative website protection service designed to withstand distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks — undertaken by infected ‘bots’ — are intended to disable the targeted website and prevent access for legitimate users. Deflect offers secure hosting, encrypted connections, advanced mitigation options and much more. Its a free service for qualifying organizations. Deflect for business and enterprises supports the non-profit arm of the service. The Deflect infrastructure has withstood attacks in excess of 100Gbps and over a thousand unique DDoS events . With a million daily readers, Deflect delivered content to over 70 million unique addresses in 2018.