DDoS protection

In the summer of 2021, Microsoft announced that they stopped one of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded – https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/12/22722155/microsoft-azure-biggest-ddos-attack-ever-2-4-tbps – saying they were able to mitigate a 2.4 TBps DDoS attack.

This attack was a UDP-based reflection attack, which was short-lived but would certainly bring down any external services that a business had that were targeted.

Microsoft states that most DDoS attacks are short-lived. Based on statistics that they have collected, most attacks occur within a range of 5–30 minutes, as seen in the following screenshot:

Figure 6.9 – DDoS attack duration statistics

In addition, Cloudflare, in their latest DDoS attack trend article for Q2 2022, as you can view here – https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-attack-trends-for-2022-q2/ – states that one of five survey respondents who experienced a DDoS attack reported...