UK Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack prevention
You’ve seen the UK headlines. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are increasing in frequency, complexity and size.
Because Internet-facing infrastructures are critical to the profitability of most organizations, the impact of a DDoS attack can be catastrophic and widespread - affecting your ability to communicate, process transactions or function effectively for hours or even days.
About DDoS attacks
A DDoS attack is an attempt to make a computer resource (i.e. web site, e-mail, voice, or a whole network) unavailable to its intended users. By overwhelming it with data and/or requests, the target system either responds so slowly as to be unusable or crashes completely.
The data volumes required to do this are typically achieved by a network of remotely controlled Zombie or botnet [robot network] computers. These have fallen under the control of an attacker, generally through the use of Trojan viruses. Prolexic currently tracks more than 4,000 command and control servers globally, which manipulate these botnets for attack, and we track more than 10 million botnets in our global IP reputational database.
Some experts estimate that one quarter of Internet connected computers have been compromised and infected by one or multiple botnets.
The scariest part of all is that in the cyber underworld, it is possible to rent 80k - 120k hosts capable of launching DDoS attacks of 10-100 Gbps Ð more than enough to take out practically any popular site on the Internet.
The price? Just US$200 per 24 hours!
Many organizations believe that it won’t happen to them, but denial is no defense. On average there are more than 7,000 DDoS attacks observed daily - a number which is growing rapidly. And for those organizations that do expect the worst, the bad news is that the DDoS defenses they currently have in place are unlikely to withstand the biggest multi-Gbps attacks. In an industry full of mitigation providers making big promises, only one company - Prolexic - has the expertise, experience and proven track record to detect and withstand all attacks.
That’s why DDoS attacks end here.
Prolexic has been fighting DDoS attacks, implementing "best of breed" practices, and developing its global mitigation network for over seven years. Prolexic's experience - as illustrated across its 24/7 global teams - and the proprietary intellectual property embodied in its mitigation platforms - are simply unmatched. Prolexic's Security Operations Center comprises a staff of mitigation experts who have a combined 50+ years of DDoS monitoring and mitigation experience. This experience grows with each working shift - where Prolexic observes and addresses between 10 and 50 DDoS attack events each day. |
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