3 Effective Measures Against DDoS Attack

And many times, those were not just technical glitches but rather a kind of cyberattack by certain groups of hackers, called DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) Attack, that could discredit them and even cause actual damages to their businesses. There were some examples of such actual cases as cyberattack on Internet Banking systems of HSBC, and JP Morgan, a very large American bank, or the case of a DDoS Extortionist group, known as DD4BC (DDoS for BitCoin), threatened top 5 banks in Thailand with their DDoS attack to be launched on their Internet Banking systems for a certain amount of ransom money to be paid with BitCoin. This typical attack can overload a targeted server with a large amount or frequent submissions of network packets from hundreds of thousand sources beyond its capacity with an attempt to crash or make it inaccessible by customers. Later, techniques used in such an attack have even been improved further              by infecting the victimized computers worldwide with Botnet malware that will make those compromised computers act like zombies following orders to collectively attack the targeted network or server. Moreover, there has been an emergence of the “DDoS as a service” offered in the Cloud for hackers’ choices that will charge those hackers for services in accordance with the bandwidth and period required in their attacking attempts.

  As such, enterprises of all kinds should get themselves ready against such possible threats. Regarding defensive measures against DDoS Attack, there are many kinds of measures designed for different system environments of users’ infrastructures and applications, for examples, the clean pipe service by internet service providers (ISPs), the black hole technique in the router, or the anti-DDoS cloud technique, etc. Besides, all protective measures should also consider all risks of attacks on the DNS (Domain Name Server), which is the system that converts the Domain Name to IP Address that is considered a critical part of the system. Therefore, attempts should be made on all possible sources of attacks in order that all possible damages to the business and time wasted in corrective actions can be minimized well.

 CAT cyfence DDoS Protection service offer not only the installation of hardware and software, but also uses a technique called DNS Record, which forwards traffic from the Web Servers through DDoS Protection system of CAT cyfence in order to protect users from all possible attacks.  As such, users can enjoy on-going service at minimized cost, and even faster server operations than ever. In addition, a protection center was established in Thailand that helps minimize Latency to a very low level. There have been as many as 10 protection centers established worldwide, and with such capacity, they could successfully combat against Volume-based, Application-based, and Botnet DDoS attacks very well. For more information, please go to: https://www.catcyfence.com/itsecurity/services/ddos-protection for additional details.

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