This document discusses DDoS protection and trends seen in North America during the COVID-19 pandemic. It notes that L7 DDoS attacks increased 70% after US lockdowns, and the top 5 most attacked US data center cities saw over 1,000 attacks daily on average in April 2020. Cloudflare mitigated over 5.4 petabytes of attack traffic that month, and presents data showing attacks have increased globally as more countries implement lockdowns. The document promotes Cloudflare's DDoS protection solutions and how they compare favorably to competitors in areas like scrubbing capacity, response times, and network coverage.