Computer software and hardware for use in securing and defending computers, software applications, protocols, and computer networks from DDOS and other cyber-attacks and providing attack behavior analytic profiling; computer hardware and computer software for use in managing network communications traffic over the Internet or among networks, data centers, cloud servers, cloud services, and applications; computer hardware and computer software for managing, monitoring, securing, accelerating, ensuring availability of, optimizing, enhancing, and configuring network devices and application