For years, the DDoS conversation has been dominated by size. How large was the attack? How much traffic was generated? How much mitigation capacity could an organisation deploy? Those questions still matter. But they no longer tell the whole story. The threat landscape is changing. Attacks are becoming more automated, more complex and increasingly capable of creating disruption without relying solely on headline-grabbing volumes. For organisations operating critical digital services, the strategic question is therefore shifting from “Can we withstand a very large attack?” to “Can we maintain service availability regardless of how an attack is delivered?” That distinction matters....