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DDoS is the new spam: 3 strategies to turn catastrophe into annoyance

DDoS: Annoyance, not Catastrophe

Published September 2018
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These ever-evolving DDoS attacks are difficult to defend against. How do you balance costs and also scale up to serve spikes in demand and traffic, while continuing to deliver satisfactory service levels to your customers? Alternatively, how can you scale down flexibly to minimize costs? These considerations will come up for every organization at some point. Some forward-thinking enterprises have been testing the resilience of their infrastructure with simulated, and internally initiated, attacks occurring frequently and at random times. Necessity is the mother of invention—and so maybe the upside of the difficulty in dealing with DDoS attacks is that the effort will force everyone to up their DDoS game, driving more resilient network and application architectures.