Have you ever tried to buy tickets to a big game on a website, or some hot new tech that everyone’s been waiting for online, only to be greeted with a white screen stating that the DNS Server did not respond? Then you’ve probably encountered a distributed denial-of-service attack or DDoS for short.
What Is A DDoS Attack?
A DDoS attack is a type of cyberattack in which an attacker intentionally disrupts a web service by overloading the website’s capacity with increased web traffic. Cybercriminals accomplish this by controlling a number of computers or other endpoints and coordinating a simultaneous traffic spike to the desired target, which, in practice, overloads and crashes the service, denying access to legitimate users.
How To Stop DDoS Attacks
Configure Firewalls And Routers
Businesses should be prepared to respond quickly to attacks by configuring firewalls and routers. These continue to be your company’s first line of defense against DDoS and can be configured to analyze data packages, categorizing the priority of the data and using it to filter out bad connections.
Scrubbing Centers
Scrubbing Centers are a type of defense that monitors traffic to and from services, looking for malicious traffic and/or attacks, and then eliminating them. They examine the flow, looking for and terminating bad connections.
Endpoint Security
Businesses should make endpoint security a top priority because it can help prevent devices from becoming part of a botnet. Administrators can use endpoint security to ensure that their users’ machines are up to date and patched, reducing the risk of malicious threats infiltrating.
Summary
You can reduce the risk of your organization’s devices being used in an attacker’s botnet and greatly reduce the consequences of a DDoS attack on your business by correctly configuring your firewalls and routers, as well as implementing strong endpoint security. Contact Cegura Technologies to strengthen your security system today!
