Protecting against DDoS attacks require more than just placing mitigation products

DDoS attacks are on the rise. The COVID-19 pandemic forced our school, work, and social lives to go online. As a result, DDoS attacks grew significantly in 2020, compared to 2019. In fact, there were almost twice as many DDoS attacks in Q1 2020 as there were in Q1 2019. And Cisco predicts that the total number of DDoS attacks will double from the 7.9 million seen in 2018 to over 15 million by 2023. In addition, RDDoS (Ransom DDoS), is also correlated with the rise in Bitcoin price, which occurred at the end of 2020 and the beginning of 2021. A large number of organizations received an extortion note and then we attacked with DDoS for not paying them.

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