Since the first Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack was launched in 1974, Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have remained among the most persistent and damaging cyber-attacks. Let’s examine how these attacks have evolved and how your company can mitigate them:
DDoS in Review
A Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack is an attack targeting the availability of network resources and applications. Unlike other kinds of attacks, DoS attacks’ primary goal is not so much to infiltrate data, but rather to slow or take down altogether a network device, an application, and/or a website.
