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Global DDOS mitigation

Product Line Strategy Leadership Award


Johannesburg, 07 Nov 2016
Whitepaper: Global DDoS Mitigation.
Whitepaper: Global DDoS Mitigation.

A distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack is an increasingly popular tactic for hackers to harass, intimidate, and disrupt businesses with an online presence or other networkcentric business processes. A DDOS attack can block legitimate users, employees and customers, and can therefore be a costly problem. DDOS attacks can also cost millions of dollars per hour depending on the nature of a company's online outward-facing business, internal operations, or both. As a result, the demand for DDOS mitigation solutions is growing rapidly.

Yet, the DDOS market faces a number of challenges, including rapidly changing technologies, rapidly evolving attack tactics, high costs and growing competition. These issues can compel potential customers to postpone new or incremental investments in DDOS mitigation solutions. In particular, DDOS mitigation solutions continue to evolve in response to changing DDOS attack vectors and threat actor tactics. Confronted with this reality, potential customers then wait until DDOS mitigation solutions adapt before making a purchase in order to avoid investing in an outdated solution.

A consequence of higher performance hardware and ongoing research needed to adapt to changing DDOS attack tactics is that DDOS mitigation solutions are expensive for many organisations. The competition level of the DDOS mitigation market remains high as well, and the array of available solutions can confuse customers and lengthen sales cycles.

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