This episode, we’re talking about Distributed Denial of Service Attacks.

A distributed denial of service (or DDOS) attack is a common cybersecurity threat. Hackers try to overwhelm a targeted information system with a flood of internet traffic. This has the effect of slowing the system to a crawl or even crashing it. DDOS attacks typically use other computers and devices that are infected with malware to launch their attack.

The best way to detect a DDOS attack at an early stage is to monitor and analyze the pattern of your system’s internet traffic. Since the most common responses to DDOS attacks involve throttling or shutting down incoming traffic, IT personnel need to be able to distinguish between a high volume of legitimate traffic and bogus or malicious traffic. Often investigation reveals suspicious trends in the surge information. It might come from a single IP address or the content might be too similar, or the pattern might be too regular to be natural.

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