{"id":2102,"date":"2012-06-12T09:10:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T09:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/jun\/12\/cloud-based-solutions-best-defence-against-cyber-ddos-attacks\/"},"modified":"2012-06-12T09:10:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T09:10:34","slug":"cloud-based-solutions-best-defence-against-cyber-ddos-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-based-solutions-best-defence-against-cyber-ddos-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud-based solutions best defence against cyber \u201cDDoS\u201d attacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent paper on <span style=\"color: #000000;\">distributed denial of services (DDoS)<\/span> attacks by Neustar concludes that only cloud-based DDoS solutions offer a comprehensive defence against increasing attacks that are expected to surge by as much as 40% in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Cloud solutions provide the bandwidth (as measured in Gbps) to absorb today&rsquo;s massive network layer attacks, plus the technology diversity and processing power to handle application-layer and high packets-per-second strikes,&rdquo; said Neustar.<\/p>\n<p>Neustar agrees that all on-premise hardware, even at best, has limits.&nbsp; At some point the sheer volume of traffic will clog network connections &ndash; before on-premise perimeter equipment even gets involved!<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Network-bandwidth attacks of 10Gbps or more were still 15% of all DDoS incidents Neustar mitigated. More than one out of 10 attacks came with hurricane strength, enough to overwhelm bandwidth and quickly cause an outage.<strong>&rdquo;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Additionally, high packets-per-second (PPS) attacks grew in popularity.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Instead of exhausting bandwidth, these drain processing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent paper on distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks by Neustar concludes that only cloud-based DDoS solutions offer a comprehensive defence against increasing attacks that are expected to surge by as much as 40% in 2012.<br \/>\n&ldquo;Cloud soluti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}