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Posted DateOctober 17, 2018
Posted Time 4   min Read

For every business operating online, DDoS protection has become mandatory.

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack uses multiple conceded systems or other network resources to overwhelm an online service, making it unavailable.

It can happen to everyone. One moment your website is working fine and at other, it just doesn’t respond.

What would happen if suddenly you see a lot of traffic coming to your website? You might mistake it for a lot of customer visits, but your security vendor will know that you are under a DDoS attack, that is if you have a security dealer, which I hope for your sake, you do. Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attacks have become very common nowadays, but these have a purpose unlike the normal attacks/hacks done many times for fun. DDoS attacks are done with the sole intention of harming the reputation and business of a website and can be driven by any of these motives.

DDoS Attacks Motivation

Financially driven to extort money, politically driven to defame the brand or business-driven to stop legitimate customers from reaching the website. Whatever be the reasons, DDoS attackers mean business, and every minute of downtime of your website costs you dearly.

Getting a Free Website DDoS Protection

If you are under an attack and do not know how to respond, a free DDoS protection plan can help you mitigate it. A DDoS protection plan usually requires routing your traffic through a web application firewall to identify and stop the bad traffic.

Free DDoS ProtectionAppTrana managed DDoS protection offers a 14-day trial so you do not have to pay for the service until the attack is mitigated or until you have experienced the features and capabilities of the product.

As soon as you are under attack or when you want to try the plan, simply onboard the website here. 

Cost of a DDoS Attack

According to industry sources, a DDoS attack is not detected up until 4 to 5 hours of its commencement, and another 5 hours or more passes before the mitigation starts.

This means that the mitigation starts almost 10 hours after an attack. An immense amount of financial and brand damage is done to any business at this time. Studies have proven that DDoS attacks result in some of the most expensive outages. DDoS-spurred outages cost an average of $822,000 to mitigate, which is second only to the $959,000 it cost to fix outages caused by IT equipment failure.

With so much at stake, one would assume that organizations are actively going for DDoS mitigation solutions but surprisingly, only 1/4th of organizations use mitigation solutions. Most businesses rely on traditional and perimeter defenses for protection, but these can prevent attacks only at Layer 3 and that mostly only to a certain effect. High volume DDoS attacks, which are now the norm, can easily overpower the traditional defenses, and further, multiply the effect of a DDoS attack by bottlenecking the traffic.

Attention needs to be placed on the attacks being targeted at the application layer.

Features to look for in a DDoS Mitigation Provider

DDoS attacks have become more sophisticated and persistent in nature. The attackers do not stop with one failed attempt but continue looking for weak points to exploit and attack. This advanced approach of attacks calls for solutions that perform continuous monitoring and real-time traffic analysis and DDoS mitigation teams that respond in real-time.

AppTrana DDoS Protection

Automated DDoS mitigation solutions cannot fulfill the purpose of complete protection against these attacks. Application Layer DDoS mitigation cannot be automated, and one cannot rely solely on automated rules/processes for mitigation. When it comes to application DDoS Mitigation, a one-size-fits-all approach is a death trap for the security world. The solution needs to be customized according to the business. It should have security teams who develop/refine real-time application-specific custom rules to mitigate the attack and protect the application.

An always-on approach is best to be followed when going for a DDoS solution provider, as this would mean that the solution is integrated with your system and is continuously scanning your traffic, and in event of a DDoS attack, it will know it immediately. This also reduces the response time significantly between the attack being found and mitigation started. A robust DDoS mitigation provider should be able to detect the early warnings of an attack and start acting on it. They should also be able to customize the solution depending on your website’s website and traffic pattern.

During and after the attack, the solution provider should be able to give you a detailed report on the attack, the steps taken, and a portal for monitoring the activities.

You should also calculate the total cost of ownership the solution is providing. After all, you don’t need to be paying through your teeth for for a good DDoS mitigation solution provider.

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Venkatesh Sundar

Venky is an Application Security technologist who built the new age Web application Scanner and Cloud WAF - AppTrana at Indusface as a Founding CTO. Currently, he spends his time on driving Product Roadmap, Customer Success, Growth, and technology adoption for US businesses.

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