Many organizations continue to experience DDoS attacks, which lead to disruption of business applications and services in the cloud. Malicious actors often initiate DDoS attacks to flood networks, systems and applications with more traffic, connections or requests than they can handle. Cloud DDoS protection is a must-have control to ensure network and application continuity and resilience. As companies migrate to the cloud and rely more on cloud services, they realize the added threat of DDoS in cloud service environments. These threats are sim ...
Back to learning center ; Introduction: It can be difficult to prevent Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, especially across distributed network architectures and during periods of high traffic. The solution is to implement DDoS protection services. When an attack is detected, mitigation begins instantly. Legitimate traffic is allowed through intelligent filtering, while malicious traffic is blocked at the source. With an always-on security layer in front of your infrastructure, you ca...
What are Amplified Reflection DDoS Attacks? ; Amplified reflection attacks are a type of DDoS attack that exploits the connectionless nature of UDPs with spoofed requests to misconfigured open servers on the internet. Amplified reflection attacks take the prize when it comes to the size of the attack. The attack sends a volume of small requests with the spoofed victim’s IP address to accessible servers. The servers reply with large amplified responses to the unwitting victim. The servers can d...
In the first half of this article, Understanding DDoS Attacks, we talked about the nuts and bolts of DDoS attacks. Here, we’ll discuss how you can take practical steps to protect your organization from the devastation of DDoS. More than 80 percent of companies experiencing at least one DDoS attack in 2017. It’s no longer a question of if, but when you’re organization will be hit by a DDoS attack. How can companies implement effective strategies to defend themselves against DDoS attacks? Le...
If you are looking for additional steps that can be taken to protect against DDoS attacks, please see the AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency whitepaper which goes over additional...
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Preparation to defend against DDoS is a better tactic than hope. Interesting article on the increase in botnet, DNS amplification, and multi-vector attacks!…