How does DDoS protection support the objective “absorbs or filters excessive traffic intended to exhaust service capacity”?

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DDoS protection is a cybersecurity control or practice. It supports this objective: absorbs or filters excessive traffic intended to exhaust service capacity. The implementation should still be validated against the organization's risk, architecture, legal obligations and operating constraints, then adapted rather than copied unchanged between environments.

CIS Critical Security Controls v8: https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/v8