Why DDoS Attacks Happen: Reasons and Psychology Behind DDoS

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Although DDoS attacks are mainly carried out with bots, the initiators and coordinators of the attacks are humans. The nature of the attacks, their intensity and duration largely depend on their motivation and behaviors. In this article, we explain why hackers launch DDoS attacks and offer a few recommendations on how to stay safe.

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High-Quality Protection Against DDoS Attacks: What’s the Fair Price?

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As you know, quality is very rarely cheap. The protection StormWall offers is no exception: we invest thoughtfully to achieve high quality of our DDoS protection service while keeping fair prices - far from the highest on the market. Thanks to the chosen strategy, we offer a very favorable price-quality ratio.

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How to Tell Legitimate Visitors from Bots: Non-Obvious Cases

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It is very important to clearly define what signs can be used to identify legitimate requests so that the anti-DDoS provider can accurately identify the beginning of an attack on the application and defend against illegitimate requests. Application developers and their customers should have an idea of how a DDoS defender thinks and acts, and ensure up front that it can detect and disable bots.

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When an Attacker Knows Your Infrastructure Better than You Do, or the Most Trivial Mistakes in Connecting DDoS Protection

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Owners of Internet resources, trying to protect them from DDoS attacks, often make mistakes that undo their efforts and investments in protection. Perhaps, most dangerous in this case is that organizations that bought a DDoS protection are under the illusion that they are automatically on the safe side.

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Why Stress Tests and Other DDoS Protection Checks Are So Important

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Many companies that have protection against DDoS attacks believe that they are now invincible. In fact, that's not entirely true, to say the least. Even if your protection really works after being connected and has successfully repelled several subsequent DDoS attacks, it is by no means a fact that it will also repel attacks that may occur today or tomorrow.

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Different Types of DDoS Attacks

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Today there are many types of DDoS attacks. They differ in how they have been carried out and the characteristics of the parasitic traffic generated by the botnets. Any even the smallest business can fall victim to attackers. Reasons for DDoS attacks abound, from hunting for valuable information to deliberate financial damage or a simple test of the site's robustness.

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