Have you ever attempted to purchase tickets for a big event only to discover that the vendor’s website crashed due to the high volume of people trying to do the same thing simultaneously?
The ticket site crashes, typically temporarily, because the server is overwhelmed by traffic that exceeds its capacity.
Criminal Distributed Denial of Service attacks, commonly known as DDoS, exploit this principle.
When a DDoS attack targets a business, it inundates it with internet traffic to overwhelm the system and cause it to fail.
The failure causes the business and its customers to lose access to services, resulting in a temporary or more severe loss of access. Last year, the average DDoS attack lasted 50 minutes.
While this may not seem lengthy, it’s sufficient to incite disgruntled customers or bring business operations to a standstill. Downtime can also be costly.
The genuinely alarming news is that DDoS attacks are not only growing in duration, but they’re also becoming more massive, sophisticated, and frequent.
Recently, the largest DDoS attack ever reported was reportedly thwarted. At its peak, it sent 71 million requests to the target’s servers per SECOND. Before that, the most significant incident on record involved 46 million requests per second.
What does this signify for you?
You must ensure that all of your security measures are up-to-date and functioning correctly. For example, is your firewall configured with DDoS monitoring and prevention tools? Is your team fully cognizant of the importance of remaining vigilant?
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Published with permission from Your Tech Updates.
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