# Vercel — Life of a Vercel request: Securing your app's traffic with Vercel

- Company: Vercel (vercel.com)
- Announced: 2024-12-05T13:00:00+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://vercel.com/blog/life-of-a-request-securing-your-apps-traffic-with-vercel
- Record: https://forck.live/items/20916-life-of-a-vercel-request-securing-your-app-s-traffic-with-vercel
- Subject: v0 / AI SDK / AI Gateway

Vercel's platform-wide Firewall blocks over one billion malicious connections per week, protecting applications from DDoS attacks and other threats. The firewall is free for all customers on all plans and requires no configuration. During the Black Friday–Cyber Monday weekend, Vercel processed over 86 billion requests and blocked over 6 billion threats.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://vercel.com/blog/life-of-a-request-securing-your-apps-traffic-with-vercel:

> In any given week, Vercel Firewall blocks over one billion malicious connections—proactively safeguarding your app before the first request arrives.

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