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What is a DDoS attack?

Reducing the threat and mitigating the damage

Published May 2013

A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) is a kind of Denial of Service (DoS) attack. A DoS simply tries to prevent a service from working. In a DDoS, the attacker uses a large number of machines from all over the Internet to send enormous amounts of traffic towards the target.

Due to the growing ease of launching DDoS attacks, the number of attacks are on the rise. DDoS attacks are not only obnoxious to deal with, but they can be a great detriment to your company.

Read this report to find out how to reduce the risk and recover from a DDoS attack.