Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks aim to flood a network or site with incoming messages or connection requests, thus preventing legitimate traffic. Today, these attacks are on the rise. They are increasing in number (3x more in 2019), size (more than 15% from 2018 to 2019) and duration (about 60min).
Consequences
1. Unavailability of service : DDOS attacks lead to network saturation and therefore to unavailability of the services offered. As a result, downtime increases and jeopardizes the business.
2. Technical damage : These attacks may be accompanied by a modification, destruction or theft of confidential data. They are used as a diversion to conceal another attack whose goal is to steal the target's sensitive data.
3. Management costs : The neutralization of these attacks as well as the restoration of the services in working order generate losses of about 150k€, which are not negligible.
A DDoS attack can have strong repercussions in terms of reputation. By creating doubt among customers, these attacks lead to a loss of credibility, bad publicity and an overall considerable loss of customers.
Current Solutions
Although many DDOS protection solutions are on the market for businesses, they do not offer protection regardless of the IP transit provider.