Track:  General Security

Author: Vann Abernethy, Field CTO, NSFOCUS

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have been around for decades and have been increasing in popularity due to the relative ease in carrying one out.  Traditionally, the purpose of these attacks has been to make a site or service unavailable to its intended users for some duration via either flood-type attacks or application-layer attacks (which are smaller, but just as effective) that overwhelm the target’s network or systems. (mais…)