What is a DDoS attack?

This method has become one of the elements of the business struggle when a competitor orders a DDoS attack aimed at disabling applications or a portal of another market participant. DDoS attack on the site can lead to inability to use the functionality of the site or program and interrupt business processes, which causes significant financial damage to the owner of the attacked resource, as it leads to the outflow of customers.

Protection against DoS or DDoS attacks is not only a craft, but also a real art, as it is complex and contains elements of programming, system administration, computer security and special equipment.

The average power of such attacks is constantly increasing, which is also facilitated by the fact that such actions do not require special training. Thanks to automated tools and the availability of special services that are easy to find in Google, the implementation of the load on the site by DDOS is not a problem for attackers. But over the years of combating this phenomenon, methods have been developed to counter, protect against attack on the resource and minimize the consequences.

It is necessary to start protection of hosting from DDoS attacks at a stage of designing of a network and start of servers. Continuous monitoring of traffic is important, especially given the increased use to generate the load on the hosting of botnet networks. Determining deviations that are not inherent in traffic is one of the components of server protection against DDoS attacks.

The widespread use of cloud technologies allows on an ongoing basis to analyze terabytes of site traffic, identifying requests from bona fide users and, at the same time, not allowing to get on the server packages created by botnets.