Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
This post is part of our Cyber Threat Series.
The Challenge:
Cyber criminals can cripple your business without every breaching your security. By using systems and botnets, they blast garbage Internet traffic at your public IP address(es). The Denial of Service Attack is distributed (hence the name) across many sources, making it more difficult to block.
DDOS attacks stop your Internet traffic. They block communications and access to applications and services. In some cases, DDOS attackers demand ransom payments to halt the attack.
What to Do:
Move your computing to cloud services. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and other public cloud providers build their networks to prevent DOS attacks. They have multiple entry points and routes to their services and manage multiple layers of DDOS protections.
Upgrade to “Next Gen” routers with improved DDOS protections. These routers can identify attacks and help reroute your Internet traffic around the attack.
Add an alternate Internet connection. Having a second connection can allow your network traffic to circumvent the attack or can provide a failover connection when needed.
Maintain strong endpoint protection to prevent botnet malware from being installed on internal systems.
Subscribe to hosted DDOS services that can route traffic around, and prevent, DDOS attacks.
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