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In our last blog post, we learned what the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is, and examined the DDoS picture globally. As we walked through some recent and well-known cases, we also surveyed a range of attack types and drilled down to specific examples. In this article, we’ll study the mitigation techniques you’ll need to resist these attacks. You’ll learn: 1. How to avoid becoming a bot; 2. How to prepare your own network for the possibility of an attack and finally; 3.

Imagine the following scenario: you’re running a small corporate website, and suddenly, your service becomes unreachable, throwing a 503 (service unavailable) http error at your customers and website visitors. The irritated messages start flooding in to support. Worried, you walk through the usual administrative checks, to make sure it’s not what you think it is. Is the webhost up?

Few things put more fear into the hearts of IT departments than the thought of a massive cyber attack — and for good reason. In 2017, the average cost of security breaches for U.S. organizations was estimated at $3.5 million. But it’s not all about the money. In addition to the financial burden caused by cyber attacks, the loss of client trust and credibility post-breach can be extremely difficult to bounce back from.