How DDoS attacks impact service providers

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Petrovic

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There's a striking disparity between how threatened service providers feel by potential DDoS attacks and how prepared they are to mitigate one, according to a Black Lotus survey. The findings demonstrate that while almost all participants (92 percent) have some form of DDoS protection in place, it is insufficient to stop an attack before damage is done.

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Most respondents incurred increased operational expenses due to DDoS attacks, with more than 35 percent of the providers surveyed indicating that they are hit with one or more attacks weekly. The respondents represented companies of all sizes, from small to large.

The largest group represented in the survey was small companies of one to 999 employees worldwide (52 percent of all companies surveyed), with organizations of fewer than 250 employees (20 percent) as the largest subgroup.

Among the findings were:
  • 61 percent of providers feel that DDoS is a threat to their businesses.
  • Only 16 percent of the providers surveyed indicated that they had been rarely or never hit by a DDoS attack.
  • The top three industries with customers affected by DDoS attacks are managed hosting solutions (MHS), voice over IP (VoIP) and platform as a service (PaaS).
  • In case of a DDoS attack, 34 percent of the surveyed providers remove the targeted customer, and 52 percent temporarily null route or block the problem customer.
  • 64 percent of PaaS providers have been impacted by DDoS.
  • 56 percent of MHS providers have been impacted by DDoS.
  • 52 percent of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers have been impacted by DDoS.
“DDoS attacks lasting hours or even minutes can lead to loss of revenue and customers, making DDoS protection no longer a luxury, but a necessity,” said Shawn Marck, CSO of Black Lotus. “DDoS attacks will continue to grow in scale and severity thanks to increasingly powerful (and readily available) attack tools, the multiple points of Internet vulnerability and increased dependence on the Internet. Enterprises have to move from thinking of DDoS as a possibility, to treating it as an eventuality.”
 

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yeah most of companies without content delivery network takes 12hrs to recover from a botnet ddos attack 1gb of botnet type can take a site down in 20 sec and they will recover 1day or a month if they will not add a cdn or extend the bandwidth capacity of the site. many sites use cloudfare to protect them from exteme ddos. but a 50 gb botnet attack can take down cloudfare. but many of hackers out there would use a cloudfare resolver to attack the main site instead of attacking cloudfare services

great post tho
 
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