“Organizations should be concerned that DDoS attacks are growing increasingly sophisticated and relentless, frequently serving as the first stage of a multi-stage attack against an organization’s infrastructure,” said Rodney Joffe, Senior Vice President and Senior Technologist for Neustar. “As proof of the increasing threat and destructive nature of DDoS attacks, the industry has recently seen an incredibly complex, hacked IOT device-driven DDoS attack that surpassed 620 Gbps, lasted for multiple days, and crippled a high visibility website,” said Tom Pageler, Chief Security and Risk Officer of Neustar. The majority of respondents (53 percent) are using traditional firewalls, 47 percent are using a cloud service provider and 36 percent are using an on-premise DDoS appliance combined with a DDoS mitigation service (hybrid solution). Investment in DDoS Protection Shows Promise for Future: The overwhelming majority of respondents (76 percent) are investing more in DDoS protection than they were a year ago.
Forty-nine percent of surveyed organizations would lose $100,000 or more per hour of downtime during these attacks. Seventy-one percent of organizations took an hour or more to detect a DDoS attack and 72 percent took an additional hour or more to respond to the attack.
Sophisticated attacks hit companies of all sizes, in all industries,” said Rob Ayoub, research director, Security Products, IDC. “Distributed denial-of-service attacks are no longer isolated events limited to large, highly visible, targets. The global response also affirms the prevalent use of DDoS attacks to distract as “smokescreens” in concert with other malicious activities that result in additional compromise, such as viruses and ransomware. The report highlights that DDoS attack volume has remained consistently high and these attacks cause real damage to organizations. (NYSE: NSR), a trusted, neutral provider of real-time information services, today published its “ October 2016 Worldwide DDoS Attacks & Protection Report: A Steady Threat in the Connected World,” a research report focused on DDoS attack and protection trends.
The Majority of DDoS Attacks (53 Percent) Resulted in Additional Compromise, Including Viruses and Ransomware Neustar Research: DDoS Attacks Consistent, Relentless and CostlyĭDoS Research Report Reveals 73 Percent of Surveyed Organizations Suffered a DDoS Attack