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# Advanced DDoS protection

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Learn how to customize and augment Cloudflare’s DDoS protection.

## Objectives

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

* Audit DNS records to prevent accidental IP address exposures.
* Optimize caching and security to reduce incoming traffic (whether malicious or legitimate).
* Augment Cloudflare's default analytics to examine attacks in more detail.
* Evaluate different ways to restrict external connections to your origin server.

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