Last year saw 8m DDoS attacks between July and December alone. The largest reached 30Tbps, according to research from NETSCOUT.
A good percentage of internet traffic is now linked to denial of service attacks. Malicious actors are exploiting the Internet of Things and edge devices, and are using AI to automate their attacks.
Then there is the growth of “DDoS for hire”. Launching a DDoS attack no longer needs any technical know-how. As our guest this week puts it, DDoS is being “democratised”.
Security teams are better at detecting and blocking DDoS attacks than they were. But malicious actors have not stood still.
They are now using complex, multi-vector attacks, rather than relying on volume alone. This makes incidents harder to counter. And service providers face both inbound, and outbound attacks as threat groups exploit connected devices, including consumer hardware.
In this episode, we look at how DDoS is evolving, and what CISOs can do to reduce the impact of this persistent security problem.
Our guest is Darren Anstee, CTO for security at NETSCOUT.
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