1. A method of utilizing internet protocol (IP) traffic segmentation to prevent distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the method comprising: receiving one or more requests for a particular service; identifying request properties associated with the one or more requests; receiving segmented data comprising illegitimate properties from one or more related services, the segmented data being segmented according to the type or category of service provided by the one or more related services and the particular service, the illegitimate properties being relevant to the particular service; and predicting whether the one or more requests are illegitimate based on a comparison of the request properties to the illegitimate properties.