What is a DDoS attack?
DDoS attacks are a common cyber threat which can cost you thousands and take your website down. Even more troubling, they are incredibly easy to launch for cybercriminals and can lead to costly failures for insecure website owners. The good news: a web application firewall (WAF) easily prevents DDoS attacks.
What is a DDoS attack?
Distributed Denial-of-Service attack (DDoS attack) is usually considered as an evolve version of DoS attack. It has all the negative effects of a DoS attack and is harder to stop. A DDoS attack is execute by having multiple computers on different networks (called a botnet), to send many requests to your website at the same time. This an attack that makes a site unavailable by overwhelming it with “fake” requests and traffic. This can slow your website or crash the server it is host on, which takes down your site as well.
Downtime for small and medium-sized companies (SMBs) can be devastatingly costly. Website downtime will cost as much as $427 per minute and it costs an average of $120,000 for DDoS attacks.
Cybercriminals also prefer DDoS attacks because they’re extremely cheap and can be buy online for as little as a dollar a minute. Sadly, you’re likely to be attack again once you’re a target – studies show that two-thirds of all DDoS targets have been hit repeatedly.
Prevent attacks with DDoS protection
It is faster and more cost-effective to combat DDoS attacks than trying to weather them up. You can use a web application firewall (WAF) to protect your website against the biggest and cleverest DDoS attacks. Make sure the DDoS defence that you are using blocks attacks correctly without disrupting legitimate traffic. With 99.99 per cent accuracy, SiteLock TrueShield WAF blocks advanced threats while allowing your visitors to access your site without problems. With our content delivery network (CDN), TrueShield also enhances the loading times of your app. In addition, SiteLock provides a website scanner that automatically detects and eliminates establish malware, so you’ll be fully protect in the event of an infection with malware.
What are the differences between DoS and DDoS?
DoS and DDoS are two common types of cyber-attacks that can block legitimate users from getting access to your website. Both attacks can cause companies to lose millions of dollars in just a few hours. these two attacks look similar and both have unfavourable financial influences, the difference between them is more than just the letter “D.”
Dos Attack
A Denial-of-Service attack (DoS attack) is a type of cyber-attack executed from a single server or a home network. It can compromise your website in the following ways such as resource exhaustion, such as using all CPU time, bandwidth and more. Next, limitation exploitation, such as repeatedly attempting to log into one account to constantly block the legitimate user out. Then, process crashing, such as leveraging an infect software to disrupt requests sent from legitimate users. Lastly, data corruption, such as changing all user types into invalid types to prevent users from logging in.
Among these categories, resource exhaustion is the most common type of DoS attack. It is usually cause by a hacker flooding requests to your server to drain one or more resources. During a DoS attack, your website usually stops responding to visitors. Therefore, if your customer service centre is receiving constant complaints from customers who can’t get access to your online services while most access requests come from one IP address, you should consider the possibility of a DoS attack.
DDoS Attack
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If a DoS attack is like starting a one-on-one fight, then DDoS attack is like besieging your house with people flooding from different directions. What’s worse, these people all look like legitimate visitors, because DDoS attackers can compromise legitimate source IPs and leverage them to start an attack. Even if there is no malicious hacker, DDoS can still happen when there is an unexpectedly large traffic to your website.
DDoS attacks are very hard to prevent because it’s difficult to differentiate a legitimate user from a compromised visitor. To help you mitigate the increasingly rampant DDoS attack, SiteLock Website Security. The most comprehensive DDoS protection solution in the industry. It can target vital components of comprehensive DDoS attacks by providing Web Application Protection, Infrastructure Protection and DNS Protection. Also by adding multiple layers to your online business.
