DDoS Analysis for 2014
DDoS attacks are evolving in complex, dangerous ways. Companies assessing their risk and protection should consider:
• Nearly twice as many companies (60 percent) report being attacked in 2013.
• Almost 92 percent of those attacked were hit repeatedly.
• 57% of DDoS targets were victims of theft: funds, customer data or intellectual property.
• Though attack duration is down, the number of attacks between 1–5 Gbps shot up nearly three times.
• DDoS drains manpower: over half of businesses (57 percent) need 6 or more people to mitigate DDoS attacks.
• Risks of $1M a day (estimated outage losses) are common: 4 in 10 companies would suffer this much or more.
• DDoS is costly across the enterprise. Customer service and other public-facing areas now take as large a hit as IT/Security.
In protecting against DDoS attacks, companies must ask: What do they stand to lose if they’re hit hard? Rigorous risk, threat and cost analysis is in order.
Predicting DDoS is as unpredictable as the attacks themselves.
DDoS attacks are evolving in complex, dangerous ways. Companies assessing their risk and protection should consider:
• Nearly twice as many companies (60 percent) report being attacked in 2013.
• Almost 92 percent of those attacked were hit repeatedly.
• 57% of DDoS targets were victims of theft: funds, customer data or intellectual property.
• Though attack duration is down, the number of attacks between 1–5 Gbps shot up nearly three times.
• DDoS drains manpower: over half of businesses (57 percent) need 6 or more people to mitigate DDoS attacks.
• Risks of $1M a day (estimated outage losses) are common: 4 in 10 companies would suffer this much or more.
• DDoS is costly across the enterprise. Customer service and other public-facing areas now take as large a hit as IT/Security.
In protecting against DDoS attacks, companies must ask: What do they stand to lose if they’re hit hard? Rigorous risk, threat and cost analysis is in order.
Predicting DDoS is as unpredictable as the attacks themselves.
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