DDoS Protection Services
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are now an established aspect of the threat landscape. The number of attacks reported continues to rise, as does the recorded peaks for the traffic they can deliver. ‘Booter’ services, the prevalence of poorly configured IoT devices and access to command and control operations for botnets like Mirai mean threat actors need relatively low levels of sophistication or competence to disrupt or completely disable unprepared organisations. Even those organisations that already have countermeasures in place must remain alert and aware to threat actors who adjust their tools, techniques and procedures (TTPs) to circumvent controls or exhaust and overwhelm defenders. Booter Service “There is a lack of ultimate control associated with this attack. You can’t prevent attempts, and likely need to rely on help from some upstream allies to defend if/when attempts are made. If someone points their botnet at you, hopefully you have...