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How Salesforce Defends 20 Trillion Transactions!

How Salesforce Stops DDOS Attacks with AI

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Byte-Sized Design
Oct 01, 2025
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Salesforce’s Trusted Perimeter is a masterpiece of engineering. This secure edge platform is the first line of defense for more than 4.5 million domains, keeping Salesforce’s global customers safe from nonstop attacks.


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⚡ TLDR

The Trusted Perimeter team had to overcome some massive challenges:

1️⃣ Keep 99.99% uptime (only 52 minutes of downtime allowed per year)
2️⃣ Handle trillions of transactions across a worldwide network
3️⃣ Fight off DDoS attacks as large as 1.6 TB/s from 2 million IPs across 130 countries
4️⃣ Stop nation-state-level threats in real-time

💡 Their solution? Build an AI-powered, ultra-resilient platform with:

  • 🌍 Blue-Green deployment architecture → 10-minute global rollbacks

  • ⚙️ Custom traffic-routing algorithms for seamless scale

  • 🤖 AI-driven behavioral analysis & anomaly detection to block advanced threats


🌍 Why This Matters

Trusted Perimeter is the backbone of Salesforce’s infrastructure. It ensures 3M+ customer organizations can focus on growing their business, while Salesforce handles massive security and performance challenges behind the scenes.

  • 📊 Nearly 1.5 trillion transactions every month

  • 🛡️ Multiple complex DDoS attacks defended weekly

This makes Trusted Perimeter a cornerstone of Salesforce’s resilience against relentless cyber warfare.


🕵️ Combating DDOS Attacks with AI

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