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The CISO’s Guide to Beating Web DDoS Attacks

The CISO’s Guide to Beating Web DDoS Attacks

Research Desk Sep 11, 2023

The first half of 2023 has seen an unparalleled rise in DDoS attack activity. DDoS attacks have grown in frequency, size, and sophistication, and the audacity of attackers seems only to be growing. ...

Cloudflare Research Shows Alarming Surge in Critical Sector DDoS Attacks

Cloudflare Research Shows Alarming Surge in Critical Sector DDoS Attacks

Insights Desk Jul 19, 2023

Highlights: The second quarter saw a sharp rise in attacks on crypto firms, part of the general HTTP DDoS increase. Attackers flood DNS servers with malicious queries, blocking legitimate user...

Microsoft Details Layer 7 DDoS Attacks

Microsoft Details Layer 7 DDoS Attacks

Insights Desk Jun 20, 2023

Highlights: A "Layer 7" attack is a type of DDoS that targets the internet protocol suite's application layer and overloads a service with a large number of requests, leading to service interrupt...

Netscout Reports a Sixfold Increase in DDoS Attacks Since 2019

Netscout Reports a Sixfold Increase in DDoS Attacks Since 2019

Insights Desk Apr 05, 2023

Highlights: The research highlights include peak distributed denial-of-service alert traffic exceeding 436 petabits and more than 75 trillion daily packets. Most of the surge is attributable t...

Most efficient ways to prevent DDoS attacks

Most efficient ways to prevent DDoS attacks

Insights Desk Feb 24, 2022

In recent years, there has been a surge in the number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which may have devastating impacts on businesses. Organizations need to have an efficient DDoS at...

Five Best Practices for Mitigating DDoS Attacks

Five Best Practices for Mitigating DDoS Attacks

Research Desk Feb 22, 2021

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks remain one of the most effective methods used by cybercriminals to cause significant financial, operational, and reputational damage to businesses worldwid...

Mitigating DDoS Attacks in Zero Seconds with Proactive Mitigation Controls

Mitigating DDoS Attacks in Zero Seconds with Proactive Mitigation Controls

Research Desk Jan 30, 2019

Over 65% of ten thousands of DDoS attacks are mitigated with Akamai's Prolexic platform via proactive mitigation controls, in 0 seconds and with no customer impact. In this security white paper, learn...

New exploits and increased relevance of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks

New exploits and increased relevance of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks

Research Desk Apr 15, 2020

The number of DDoS attacks increased 180% in 2019. Are you prepared for 2020? Learn what you need to know from our Security Operations Center (SOC) in order to protect your organization before an atta...

Syscon Infoway Fights Off Cyber-Attacks And Potentially Damaging Outages With DDOS Protection

Syscon Infoway Fights Off Cyber-Attacks And Potentially Damaging Outages With DDOS Protection

Research Desk Aug 27, 2019

Offering IT services to thousands of customers across a wide geographic region, Syscon Infoway began to experience harmful DDoS attacks in August 2016. That culminated in a disaster resulting in six d...

State of the Internet / Security: DDoS and Application Attacks

State of the Internet / Security: DDoS and Application Attacks

Research Desk Apr 05, 2019

The State of the Internet / Security: DDoS and Application Attacks report launches a new year of insightful security research and intelligence with a look at a DDoS attack that wasn’t, bot evasion t...

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