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Press inbox[email protected] · replies within 4 hours, business days Founder directStav David · [email protected] LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/stav-david LanguagesEnglish, Hebrew (Stav can quote in either) Time zoneAsia/Jerusalem (UTC+3) · flexible for US/EU calls

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DDactic is an automated DDoS resilience testing platform. Founded in 2025, the company simulates Layer 3 through Layer 7 attacks from a fleet across 23+ cloud providers and produces vendor-specific hardening recommendations validated by stage-reprobe after the customer applies them. DDactic is built for security teams that already own Cloudflare, Akamai, Imperva, AWS Shield, or Radware and need an independent, attacker's-perspective check on whether their protection actually holds. The platform's differentiating capability is real bot-detection bypass research (25 vendors fingerprinted) and protection-group-aware testing that maps which subdomains share fate with which origin.

Founder

NameStav David TitleFounder & CEO, DDactic Background4 years in DDoS engineering. Particular interests: HTTP/2 frame abuse, rate-limit profiling, CDN bypass mechanics. Quotable onDDoS attack vectors (L3-L7), CDN/WAF coverage analysis, bot detection bypass, attack-surface mapping, the gap between paid protection and validated protection. LanguagesEnglish, Hebrew

Story angles already covered (or available)

How HTTP/2 frame-abuse vectors evolved 2 years after CVE-2023-44487
Why most "DDoS protection" deployments are never actually validated
Building a 23-cloud bot fleet for distributed attack-traffic generation
Open Protection Index (OPI): an open standard for grading external DDoS posture
The shared-fate problem: when one origin going down takes 40 subdomains with it
What 25 bot-detection vendors actually do differently — fingerprint study
Israeli infrastructure as a real-world DDoS testing ground (regional angle)

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Founding context

DDactic was started after multiple engagements showed the same gap: enterprises pay six and seven figures for DDoS protection — Cloudflare Magic Transit, Akamai Prolexic, Imperva, AWS Shield Advanced, Radware DefensePro — and almost nobody actually tests whether the protection holds. The industry-standard alternative is a vendor-led "DDoS test" delivered as an appointment: 4 hours, scheduled weeks ahead, run from a single ASN against the production target. That misses the entire L7 surface, doesn't probe IP rotation, and gives no per-vector data.

DDactic runs continuous, distributed simulation across 23+ cloud providers with per-vector attribution and stage-reprobe validation after customer hardening changes. Free passive scan for any domain; paid active simulation for verified customers.

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Founded: 2025
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
Bot fleet: deployable across 23+ cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM, Hetzner, OVH, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, Scaleway, Cherry, Civo, Exoscale, Fly, Hostinger, IONOS, Kamatera, Leaseweb, LunaNode, ServerSpace, UpCloud, Zenlayer, Alibaba, Tencent)
Attack vectors covered: ~200, mapped across L3 (ICMP/IP), L4 (TCP/UDP/QUIC), L7 (HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3), Low-and-Slow, and Protocol-Specific (SMTP, SSH, RDP, SIP, LDAP, gRPC, WebSocket)
Bot-detection vendors fingerprinted: 25
Free scan endpoint: ddactic.net/free-scan · no signup, email-gated unlock for full report
Open standards: OPI (Open Protection Index) — Apache 2.0