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Cyber ResilienceDistributed deniel-of-service (DDoS) attacks are becoming bigger and more severe than ever. Unfortunately, this cyber threat will continue to haunt chief information security officers (CISOs) and IT teams for the foreseeable future.
The attack, executed through the Mirai botnet, infected over 100,000 IoT devices, including IP cameras and printers. The attack reached 400,000 bots and disrupted services to major companies, including Amazon, Netflix, Reddit, Spotify, Tumblr and Twitter.
Earlier this year, a new and bigger DDoS attack emerged and hit hosting service GitHub. The impact of the attack was massive with 1.35 TB per second of traffic hitting the popular site. Although GitHub was only knocked offline intermittently and managed to beat the attack back entirely after less than 20 minutes, the sheer scale of the incident was alarming. DDoS attacks compromise Internet devices to generate enormous volumes of data and direct that data at a particular target such as a web server or router.
“Every company is vulnerable to DDoS attacks,” says Shah H. Sheikh, Senior Cybersecurity Consultant and Advisor / Co-founder, DTS Solution. “This type of threat can impact organisations of all shapes and sizes from e-commerce to banking, civil defence, telcos, aviation and more as long as they rely on the Internet. Increased connectivity of Industrial Control Systems makes it vulnerable to DDoS, which could up new doors for would be and nation state actors.”
“It is also important to define a well structured SLA to ensure there are clear roles and responsibilities, timely response and action plan when an attack does materials with specific escalation points and go to communication model.”
As cyber criminals perfect their DDoS attacks, the technology and tactics of organisations need to evolve as well. To ensure a quick recovery, security teams should adopt a proactive approach to avoid the damaging effects of DDoS attacks.
Distributed deniel-of-service (DDoS) attacks are becoming bigger and more severe than ever. Unfortunately, this cyber threat will continue to haunt chief information security officers (CISOs) and IT teams for the foreseeable future.
“Every company is vulnerable to DDoS attacks,” says Shah H. Sheikh, Senior Cybersecurity Consultant and Advisor / Co-founder, DTS Solution. “This type of threat can impact organisations of all shapes and sizes from e-commerce to banking, civil defence, telcos, aviation and more as long as they rely on the Internet. Increased connectivity of Industrial Control Systems makes it vulnerable to DDoS, which could up new doors for would be and nation state actors.”
As cyber criminals perfect their DDoS attacks, the technology and tactics of organisations need to evolve as well. To ensure a quick recovery, security teams should adopt a proactive approach to avoid the damaging effects of DDoS attacks.
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