Adding news post announcing documentation on platform protections.

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+date: November 9th 2023
+title: "New platform protections against malicious activity"
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+# New platform protections against malicious activity!
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+In response to some [recent incidents that caused outages on the platform](https://cloudgov.statuspage.io/incidents/n212qfbrqg83), the cloud.gov team has added new [platform protections against malicious activity](https://cloud.gov/docs/technology/platform-protections/). Notably, the team has added rate limiting by IP address to mitigate the effect of surges of malicious traffic on the platform.
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+Adding these protections furthers our goal to provide a secure and reliable platform for cloud.gov customers. By documenting these protections, we hope to increase transparency about how your applications are protected.
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+If you have any questions about these new protections or if you think that they may be inadvertently affecting your legitimate traffic on the platform, please contact us at [email protected]. As always, thanks for being a cloud.gov customer!