Companies suffer an average of 15 DDoS attacks per year
The average company suffers 15 DDoS attacks per year, with average attacks causing 17 hours of effective downtime, including slowdowns, denied customer access or crashes, …
Retail, gaming industries hardest hit with web application and DDoS attacks
Akamai published the Q1 2016 State of the Internet – Security Report, which provides a detailed view of the global cloud security threat landscape and in-depth analysis …
How visibility can help detect and counter DDoS attacks
It’s been proven that preventive medical strategies are more cost-effective for treatment and better solutions to support long-term health than reactive medical measures. …
DNS provider NS1 hit with multi-faceted DDoS attacks
Early last week, DNS and traffic management provider NS1 was hit with a series of DDoS attacks that lasted several days, and managed to impact DNS delivery in the European, …
Cybercriminals add DDoS component to ransomware payloads
Instead of just encrypting data files on a workstation (plus any network drive it can find) and locking the machine, a new variant of the Cerber ransomware is now adding a …
Playbook: Prepare your business for DDoS attacks
Like any business initiative, good preparation and planning can go a long way toward making the DDoS response process as manageable, painless, and inexpensive as possible. …
Whitepaper: Protecting financial institutions from DDoS attacks
In response to the growing DDoS threat, the FFIEC issued a statement requiring banks and financial institutions to monitor their networks for DDoS attacks and proactively …
Geopolitical events fuel uptick in region-specific DDoS attacks
An attack research group was the No.1 target of DDoS attacks, and the Middle East region also saw a sharp increase in attacks last quarter, according to Nexusguard. …
DDoS aggression and the evolution of IoT risks
Few organizations globally are being spared DDoS attacks, according to a Neustar survey of over 1,000 IT professionals across six continents. With the bombardment fairly …
ISPs are putting their enterprise customers at risk of DDoS attacks
The vast majority of enterprise end users (85%) want their ISPs to offer more comprehensive DDoS protection-as-a-service, according to Corero Network Security. The research, …
New application level attack bodes ill for hybrid DDoS protection
Imperva has recently witnessed a new type of DDoS attack they believe might become a go-to for cyber criminals looking to take sites and services down. The attack was an …
eBook: Guide to protecting SaaS apps from DDoS attacks
With a business model dependent on 100% uptime for their online customers, the last thing SaaS companies can afford is a DDoS attack. Read this DDoS eBook from Incapsula and …
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