Mytton: Non-DDoS web security requires application-level context
David Mytton · AI is Revolutionizing Web Security - Bots, Agents, & Real-Time Defense · Jun 16, 2025 · at 2:26
David Mytton, CEO of Arcjet, explains why traditional network-level filtering is insufficient for modern application security and AI agent traffic.
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“So a volumetric DDoS attack, you just want to block that at the network. You never want to see that traffic, but everything else needs the context of the application.”
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