Neustar has published October 2016 Worldwide DDoS Attacks & Protection Report: A Steady Threat in the Connected World, a research report focused on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack and protection trends.
The report highlights that DDoS attack volume has remained consistently high and these attacks cause real damage to organisations. The global response also affirms the prevalent use of DDoS attacks to distract as smokescreens in concert with other malicious activities that result in additional compromise, such as viruses and ransomware.
“Distributed denial-of-service attacks are no longer isolated events limited to large, highly visible, targets. Sophisticated attacks hit companies of all sizes, in all industries,” said Rob Ayoub, Research Director, Security Products, IDC*.
Neustar collected responses from more than 1,000 information security professionals, including Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), Chief Security Officers (CSOs) and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) across North America, Europe, and the Middle East (EMEA), and Asia-Pacific (APAC), to determine how DDoS attacks are impacting their organisation and how they are mitigating the threat. Key findings from October 2016 Worldwide DDoS Attacks & Protection Report: A Steady Threat in the Connected World include:
The overwhelming majority of surveyed organisations in APAC (77%) have suffered a DDoS attack. Eighty-five percent of attacked organisations were attacked more than once and 45% were attacked six or more times.
The majority of organisations that suffered a DDoS attack (53%) also experienced some form of additional compromise. In APAC, 48% of breached organisations discovered a virus; malware was activated at 37% of breached organisations, and ransomware was encountered at 16% of breached organisations.
It can take hours to detect and mitigate a DDoS attack, at significant cost to the organisation. Eighty-one percent of organisations in APAC took an hour or more to detect a DDoS attack and 72% took an additional hour or more to respond to the attack. Globally, 49% of surveyed organisations would lose US$100,000 or more per hour of downtime during these attacks.
Three quarters of respondents (76%) are investing more in DDoS protection than they were a year ago. The majority of respondents (53%) are using traditional firewalls, 47% are using a cloud service provider and 36% are using an on-premise DDoS appliance combined with a DDoS mitigation service (hybrid solution).
“As proof of the increasing threat and destructive nature of DDoS attacks, the industry has recently seen an incredibly complex, hacked IOT device-driven DDoS attack that surpassed 620 Gbps, lasted for multiple days, and crippled a high visibility website,” said Tom Pageler, Chief Security and Risk Officer of Neustar.
“Organisations across Asia Pacific are becoming more digitalised and as a result risk being exposed to increasingly complex and relentless attacks, said Robin Schmitt, Head of APAC for Security at Neustar. “IT and business leaders need to realise the potential damage that an attack can cause, and apply adequate security measures that will protect their company from a DDoS attacks.”
Neustar offers SiteProtect, a global cloud-based DDoS mitigation network.
Interested?
Download October 2016 Worldwide DDoS Attacks & Protection Report: A Steady Threat in the Connected World
*Worldwide DDoS Prevention Products and Services Forecast, 2016–2020, August 2016.
The report highlights that DDoS attack volume has remained consistently high and these attacks cause real damage to organisations. The global response also affirms the prevalent use of DDoS attacks to distract as smokescreens in concert with other malicious activities that result in additional compromise, such as viruses and ransomware.
“Distributed denial-of-service attacks are no longer isolated events limited to large, highly visible, targets. Sophisticated attacks hit companies of all sizes, in all industries,” said Rob Ayoub, Research Director, Security Products, IDC*.
Neustar collected responses from more than 1,000 information security professionals, including Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), Chief Security Officers (CSOs) and Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) across North America, Europe, and the Middle East (EMEA), and Asia-Pacific (APAC), to determine how DDoS attacks are impacting their organisation and how they are mitigating the threat. Key findings from October 2016 Worldwide DDoS Attacks & Protection Report: A Steady Threat in the Connected World include:
The overwhelming majority of surveyed organisations in APAC (77%) have suffered a DDoS attack. Eighty-five percent of attacked organisations were attacked more than once and 45% were attacked six or more times.
The majority of organisations that suffered a DDoS attack (53%) also experienced some form of additional compromise. In APAC, 48% of breached organisations discovered a virus; malware was activated at 37% of breached organisations, and ransomware was encountered at 16% of breached organisations.
It can take hours to detect and mitigate a DDoS attack, at significant cost to the organisation. Eighty-one percent of organisations in APAC took an hour or more to detect a DDoS attack and 72% took an additional hour or more to respond to the attack. Globally, 49% of surveyed organisations would lose US$100,000 or more per hour of downtime during these attacks.
Three quarters of respondents (76%) are investing more in DDoS protection than they were a year ago. The majority of respondents (53%) are using traditional firewalls, 47% are using a cloud service provider and 36% are using an on-premise DDoS appliance combined with a DDoS mitigation service (hybrid solution).
“As proof of the increasing threat and destructive nature of DDoS attacks, the industry has recently seen an incredibly complex, hacked IOT device-driven DDoS attack that surpassed 620 Gbps, lasted for multiple days, and crippled a high visibility website,” said Tom Pageler, Chief Security and Risk Officer of Neustar.
“Organisations across Asia Pacific are becoming more digitalised and as a result risk being exposed to increasingly complex and relentless attacks, said Robin Schmitt, Head of APAC for Security at Neustar. “IT and business leaders need to realise the potential damage that an attack can cause, and apply adequate security measures that will protect their company from a DDoS attacks.”
Neustar offers SiteProtect, a global cloud-based DDoS mitigation network.
Interested?
Download October 2016 Worldwide DDoS Attacks & Protection Report: A Steady Threat in the Connected World
*Worldwide DDoS Prevention Products and Services Forecast, 2016–2020, August 2016.
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