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DDoS
DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service, is a cyberattack where multiple compromised computer systems, often organized into a botnet, flood a target server, service, or network with a massive amount of traffic. This overwhelming traffic makes the target inaccessible or unusable for its legitimate users.
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a malicious cyber offensive leveraging a botnet of multiple compromised computing devices to saturate a target server, network, or application with an overwhelming volume of illegitimate traffic, thereby disrupting normal operations and causing service unavailability for legitimate users.
BACKGROUND
In computing, a denial-of-service attack is a cyberattack in which the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to a network. Denial of service is typically accomplished by flooding the targeted machine or resource with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload systems and prevent some or all legitimate requests from being fulfilled. The range of attacks varies widely, spanning from inundating a server with millions of requests to slow its performance, overwhelming a server with a substantial amount of invalid data, to submitting requests with an illegitimate IP address.
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- Distributed Denial of Service
- Flooding attack
- Botnet attack
- Network flood
USAGE NOTE
DDoS attacks are a common threat used to disrupt online services, extort organizations, or as a form of cyber protest.
DEVELOPERS
Organizations developing technology related to DDoS.
Cloudflare offers a suite of DDoS protection services that leverage its global network to absorb and mitigate even the largest attacks, protecting websites, applications, and networks.
Akamai provides extensive DDoS protection solutions as part of its web performance and security services, utilizing its distributed edge platform to defend against a wide range of attack vectors.
Netscout develops hardware and software solutions for network performance monitoring and security, including advanced DDoS detection and mitigation capabilities for service providers and enterprises.
Radware specializes in application delivery and cybersecurity, offering dedicated DDoS protection solutions that include on-premise appliances and cloud-based services for real-time attack mitigation.
Arbor Networks, now part of Netscout, is a long-standing leader in DDoS defense, providing intelligent network visibility and advanced threat protection solutions for enterprises and service providers.
Imperva offers comprehensive application and data security solutions, including cloud-based DDoS protection that defends websites and applications from various types of denial-of-service attacks.
Fortinet provides broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, including DDoS protection capabilities within its FortiGate firewalls and other security products, designed to protect network infrastructure.
Google Cloud offers DDoS protection services, like Cloud Armor, which help protect applications and services running on Google Cloud from various network and application layer DDoS attacks.
AWS provides Shield, a managed DDoS protection service that safeguards applications running on AWS. AWS Shield Standard is automatically enabled for all AWS customers, while AWS Shield Advanced offers enhanced protections and attack visibility.