In October 2016 DNS provider Dyn was hit by a major DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack by an army of IoT devices which had been hacked especially for the purpose. Over 14,000 domains using Dyn’s services were overwhelmed and became unreachable including big names like Amazon, HBO, and PayPal.
According to research by Cloudflare the average cost of infrastructure failure to businesses is $100,000 (£75,000) per hour. How then can you make sure that your organization doesn’t fall victim to this kind of attack? In this guide, you’ll discover major infrastructure providers who have the necessary digital muscle to protect against attacks designed to flood your network capacity.
