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2015 DDoS Impact & Response Study

DDoS attacks may be out of the headlines, but they have hardly disappeared as a significant business concern. In this new 2015 DDoS Impact & Response Study of organizations in the U.S. and UK, we find: 55% of respondents say they have experienced as many or more attacks as in the past year; 60% say the attacks...

What's Behind a Cyberattack?

Breaches happen. In today's high-value, high-stakes enterprise environments, many organizations rightly assume not only that their data and computing systems will be attacked, but that a certain number of attacks will succeed. But recognizing the problem is only the first step - because the corollary to the...

Leverage Security Intelligence for Financial Services Institutions

Financial services organizations are primary targets for increasingly sophisticated - and numerous - security attacks. In fact, a 2012 Ponemon Institute study revealed that 64 percent of US retail banks surveyed experienced a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack during the previous 12 months. In September 2012...

IDC Analyst Connection: DDoS Prevention: Time for Defense in Depth

In 2013, IDC saw a sharp increase in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in terms of frequency, bandwidth volume, and application orientation. With attacks on the rise, organizations need to be aware of, and protect their infrastructure from, the advanced methods used by today's DDoS attackers. According...

Is Your Data Center Ready for Today's DDoS Threats?

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are some of the oldest Internet threats and continue to be the top risk to networks around the world. As protections have evolved, the technology used by hackers has adapted and has become much more sophisticated. New attack types now target applications and services,...

Tackling the DDoS Threat to Banking in 2014

DDoS attacks have undergone significant evolution. On the one hand, they have grown larger. But attackers are also harnessing more sophisticated technologies, such as headless browsers, that enable relatively small, short attacks to go undetected and wreak havoc on a bank's website. Another trend is the blending of...

Data Breach and DDoS: Security in a Faster Forward World

In addition to brute force/scale based attacks, attackers often probe for, and then take advantage of, application vulnerabilities to steal data or pursue financial gain. This means that, in addition to a Web security solution's scale and performance, organizations should consider how architecture and adaptability...

How to Prepare Your Infrastructure for DDoS Mitigation

In this jointly developed white paper from Fortinet and Ixia, you'll learn the basics of a DDoS attack, methods to mitigate them, and how to thoroughly test your defenses. Topics discussed include: How DDoS attacks work; Layer 3, 4 and 7 DDoS attack types and how they disable your network resources; How to...

DDoS Malware: A Research Paper

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) malware and tools threaten an organization's Internet-facing systems. This technical brief covers DDoS-enabled malware and several DDoS-specific tools, their capabilities and the network indicators they generate while performing the attack methods. It includes new attack vectors...

5 Steps to Prepare for a DDoS Attack

This white paper provides an expert overview of the most common types of distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, as well as five key mitigation steps enterprises can take now to prepare for a future attack. Learn how to: Centralize data gathering and understand trends; Define a clear escalation path; Use...

DDoS Attack Report: Q3 2013

Each quarter Prolexic publishes a wide variety of metrics gathered from distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against its global client base, which includes over 100 financial services firms. This quarter showed a significant shift in tactics as DDoS perpetrators used more reflection attacks, which increased...

Implementing DSD'S Top 35 Mitigation Strategies

Simple fact - governments across the globe have been victims of attacks in one form or another. The frequency of these attacks has varied and the motives range from a self-deluded intention of doing good for society, to monetary or political gain or for no other reason than to demonstrate the ability to pull off such...

DDoS Mitigation Strategy: A Two-Phased Defense

DDoS is a complex problem that represents a serious risk to the enterprise, and effective mitigation demands extensive preparation before the attack arrives. Organizations need a strategy that keeps local connections up at the beginning of an attack, and then cleans the upstream traffic prior to it reaching the...

10 Essential Steps to Defend Against DDoS Attacks

There is no doubt that cyber-attacks have grown in complexity and sophistication. As a result, a need has arisen for a new first line of defense. With the ever-broadening motivations for attacks coupled with easy to obtain and even easier to use attack tools, the traditional first line of defense, notably firewalls,...

The Attack Continuum's In-Depth Defense Strategy

For many years, conventional wisdom focused solely on a perimeter-based defense with the mission to keep out all attackers. Now, it's become pertinent to see these persistent threats and attacks through a different lens - expect a successful attack and penetration of your defenses and design a defense-in-depth...