Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are happening more often, and are bigger and more damaging than ever before.
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At the end of the day, DDoS attacks are part of everyday life, and for most businesses, it's not 'if' but 'when', says Alex Cruz Farmer, product manager: security, at Cloudflare, who will be presenting on 'The History and the Future of DDoS' at the ITWeb Security Summit 2018, to be held from 21 to 25 May, at Vodacom World in Midrand.
Speaking of how he sees DDoS attacks developing going forward, Farmer says DDoS attacks are growing in size year on year, usually by at least double. "At Cloudflare, we see new and very creative DDoS vectors, however, the big trends are heavily focused on the Internet of Things (IoT) and other devices such as home routers and modems."
Too easy
Farmer says DDoS attacks are popular because they are easy to carry out. "There are many different ways to trigger a DDoS attack, whether it's by building a botnet, finding a number of vulnerable services such as SSDP, NTP or DNS, or buying DDoS attack services online, which have potentially done all the hard work for you."
Traditional Web sites and other servers are connected at 1G, and in rare scenarios 10G, which makes them easy targets for a volumetric-style attack, essentially strangling the network connectivity to their servers or applications.
However, he says since the migration to private and public clouds, the problem has got a lot more complex, as some architectures introduce bottlenecks in their infrastructure.
Complex protection
He says there are a variety of solutions on the market to mitigate DDoS attacks, from cloud platforms to hardware appliances that can installed within the company's infrastructure. "Often, the big mistake that businesses make is not understanding where their weaknesses are, and buying solutions that do not give them the complex protection they need."
Delegates attending Farmer's talk will learn about the ins and outs of what Cloudflare sees on a day-to-day basis. He will discuss DDoS trends, both short- and long-term, and will offer some tips and tricks as to how to make your business as invisible online as possible.
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