# Vercel — Protectd: Evolving Vercel’s always-on denial-of-service mitigations

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2025-04-07T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/protectd-evolving-vercels-always-on-denial-of-service-mitigations
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20889-protectd-evolving-vercel-s-always-on-denial-of-service-mitigations
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Vercel announced Protectd, a new real-time security engine that reduces mitigation times for novel denial-of-service attacks by over tenfold. Protectd runs across all deployments and replaces the previous polling-based detection with real-time signal propagation at the edge.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/protectd-evolving-vercels-always-on-denial-of-service-mitigations:

> Now, we’re introducing Protectd , our next-generation real-time security engine. Running across all deployments, Protectd reduces mitigation times for novel DoS attacks by over tenfold , delivering faster, more adaptive protection against emerging threats.

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