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June 2019
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NEW APPROACHES
TO DDOS PROTECTION
OFFER BETTER SECURITY
AND ECONOMIC SCALE
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Rethinking the Economics of
DDoS Defense
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)
attacks are more vicious than ever, with
attack sizes reaching a scale that has
jumped by an order of magnitude in as
little as five years. For enterprises, the
ability to handle DDoS attacks in-house
becomes a steeper challenge with
each passing year as attackers find
new methods to amplify attacks. More
pressing still is that the 5G rollout is in
its early phases but will arrive soon and
will offer attackers tremendous resources
with which to generate massive attacks.
In light of these new attack trends, DDoS
defense architectures must evolve at a
faster pace.
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Yet, enterprises are increasingly
identifying limitations to the DDoS
defense options available to them—
chiefly, that the cost of DDoS defenses
is manageable for large enterprises but
presents an overly oppressive expense
for smaller organizations.
DDoS mitigation appliances are a wise
investment for businesses that face
a regular, steady stream of attacks
but not for business facing infrequent
attacks. Cloud services add a sizable
overhead cost to online operations,
while on-demand cloud services present
unpredictable costs.
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