DDoS Protection
Distributed denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are widespread and, if successful, can have a detrimental impact on an organization’s service operation. Depending on the scale of the DDoS attack, it can render an entire website unavailable, and for retail e-commerce businesses, this could cause them significant losses in sales.
Understanding DDoS and its attack patterns
To begin, the initiator of a DDoS attack will focus on a specific target such as a single host, network, or service to compromise. This target will likely be a vital component of an organization’s infrastructure. During an attack, an attempt will be made to severely disrupt the performance of the target using a massive number of inbound requests from several different distributed sources within the same period.
This creates the following two problems:
- The additional traffic load floods the target and prevents authentic and legitimate inbound requests from reaching that target...
