3.3 DDoS Attack Duration 3.3.1 Attack Duration Distribution In 2018, the average duration of a DDoS attack was 42 minutes, down 17% from 2017. This indicates that DDoS attacks were upgraded in industrialization, weaponization, and efficiency and DDoS-as-aService gained momentum for fast growth. We noticed that the longest DDoS attack...
Category: DDoS Mitigation
A Look into RSA 2019: Finding a New Balance Between Efficiency and Security in Incident Response
Incident Response Is Changing The enterprise security market has seen fast incorporation of more and more cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile devices into enterprise security environments, which traditionally abound with servers, workstations, and networking and security devices. In this context, enterprises are faced with decentralized services and products...
IP Reputation Report-04192019
Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at April 19, 2019. Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The country Suriname (SR) has been in the first place for three weeks....
2018 DDoS Attack Landscape-4
3.2 DDoS Attack Type Analysis 3.2.1 Proportions of Different Attack Types In 2018, the most frequently seen attacks were SYN flood, UDP flood, ACK flood, HTTP flood, and HTTPS flood attacks6, which altogether accounted for 96% of all DDoS attacks. In contrast, reflection attacks contributed to no more than 3%...
IP Reputation Report-04122019
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2018 DDoS Attack Landscape-3
Analysis of DDoS Attacks in 2018 3.1Â DDoS Attack Count and Peak Size 3.1.1Â Attack Count and Traffic In 2018, we observed 148,000 DDoS attacks (down 28.4% from 2017), which generated a total of 643,100 TB of traffic, about the same level as in 2017. DDoS attacks keep expanding in...
