Over the last couple of years, I wrote about DDoS attacks several times—with good reason. They are increasing in size and intensity. Each year more homes are connected to the Internet; consumers and businesses increase their access connection bandwidth; and more devices are online at each connection. With all these connected devices, many of which have little to no protection, the field is ripe for threat actors to harvest DDoS attack hosts, a.k.a. bots.
There are multiple strategies ranging in cost and efficacy for defending Internet properties and applications against DDoS attacks. With DDoS defense, you really get what you pay for.
