There are at least three ways to classify tools for defending against DDoS attacks: by deployment type: on-premise, cloud-based, or hybrid solutions; by protection level: packet-level (L3/L4) or application-level (L7); by traffic filtering mode: symmetric or asymmetric.
According to our forecast, in 2021 the global quantity of DDoS attacks on companies’ online resources will increase by at least 20% compared to last year. For more information read our last press-release.
According to StormWall IT security experts, DDoS attacks against telecom companies are on the rise. The surge of such attacks was first detected in early 2021, during the New Year holidays. This January, the incidence of DDoS attacks on the telecom sector has increased by 10% compared with January 2020 and by 34% compared with December 2020, as indicated by data shared by StormWall clients. Hackers mainly targeted small Internet service providers, hosting providers and small data centers with insufficient resources to protect the infrastructure from large-scale DDoS attacks.
StormWall experts analyzed DDoS attacks targeting multiple European online markets in 2020. The analysis revealed that the Entertainment sector (39,6%), Telecommunications (28%), and Online retail (14,55%) were attacked the most. Other industries that were commonly targeted by DDoS campaigns during the year were Finance (8,94%), Education (5,5%) and Construction (3,41%). The data used for the analysis was obtained from StormWall’s customers across multiple industries.
Experts from StormWall studied DDoS-attacks targeting the online retail industry in Europe. During the research, StormWall collected data from its clients working in multiple e-commerce segments. Experts discovered that during the pandemic, between February and October 2020, the number of DDoS attacks targeted at online retail services quadrupled compared to the same period last year.
Africell, the US-owned mobile network operator with more than 12 million customers in four African countries, has adopted the industry-leading StormWall Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection solution to improve security across its networks
The key goal of any DDoS protection is to ensure the availability of an online service under attack as well as without it. But the problem is, if the service has availability issues even without an attack, under attack this issue will become more evident.
The goal №3 - ensure clear opportunities for filtering the attacks. Many clients are sure that merely using an anti-DDoS service will save them from problems to ensure the protection from DDoS attacks. This is an illusion.
Goal №2 – probably the second most difficult goal after the first one-to - provide as much information as possible to the DDoS protection company.
So, the goal №1 - perhaps the simplest – is to give the attacker as little information as possible.
