Protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is a standard feature in most professional hosting packages today. Nevertheless, severe web service outages occur every day as a result of DDoS attacks. But how does this dichotomy come about?
The reason is the trend for cybercriminals to distribute their attacks in an increasingly complex manner across different network layers. Even when organizations have valid network and infrastructure layer protections in place, their web applications remain vulnerable if no dedicated application layer protection is implemented.
Even on-premises protection solutions quickly reach their limit in the face of persistent attacks. Since the limits of cyber defense are defined here by the company's own hardware, ...