Player ingress
UDP and TCP traffic enters at the closest protected edge.
Solutions for gaming
Keep every session responsive when attackers target the match.
NorthShield protects latency-sensitive game servers against UDP floods, protocol abuse, and targeted disruption without turning mitigation into a gameplay penalty.
Real-timetraffic decisions at the edge
L3–L7network and application coverage
24/7attack visibility for operators
The player path
Protection measured in stable sessions, not only blocked packets.
A match can be technically online and still be unplayable. Gaming policy protects handshakes, long-lived sessions, query services, and voice traffic as separate workloads.
Game fingerprint
Protocol, packet shape, handshake, and session rate are evaluated.
Attack isolation
Malformed flows are dropped without resetting the whole port.
Clean session
Validated traffic continues to the host over the selected delivery path.
Workload profiles
Different game traffic deserves different enforcement.
Build policy around what each port does instead of applying one generic threshold to the entire server.
Live match traffic
Preserve active sessions
Rate and packet-shape controls tuned for latency-sensitive player flows.Login & query
Validate session creation
Protect authentication, server queries, and handshake endpoints from scripted pressure.Voice & community
Keep coordination online
Separate voice and supporting platform traffic from the protected game daemon.Event readiness
Prepare before launch day becomes attack day.
Tournaments, creator events, updates, and launches change legitimate traffic and attacker attention at the same time.
Map titles, regions, ports, and expected concurrency.
Validate profiles and escalation contacts with game operations.
Watch attack peaks alongside player and origin health.
Review vectors, false positives, and capacity headroom.
Build protection around your game traffic.
Share your titles, ports, regions, and delivery model. We will map the right protection path for your infrastructure.