The rising cost of cybercrime: Why businesses must invest in cybersecurity
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Battling cybercrime is a multifront war, and modern-day DDoS attacks are complex, multi-vector, and dynamic
by Gaurav Mohan
August 4, 2021
If cybercrime organisations could be publicly traded, it would likely create a new, multibillion-dollar industry. During the past year, IT and network professionals across sectors were faced with the unexpected challenge of facilitating remote and hybrid working environments. As a result, large-scale changes in remote access architectures and cloud-delivered services were required.
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Distributed denial-of-service attacks are on the increase, heightening the need to test now for resiliency. NetScout
Cybersecurity is built to protect computer systems and networks from theft, damage, and service disruption from attacks such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). DDoS attacks work by taking a target website or online service offline by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of internet traffic.
Although DDoS attacks have been around for more than 20 years, they remain something of a moving target as cybercriminals regularly discover and weaponize new attack vectors and techniques, including:
Launching different types of attacks such as volumetric, TCP state-exhaustion, and application-layer attacks simultaneously as multivector attacks, each with a unique signature.