As DDoS attacks mature, hope-and-pray prevention proves obsolete
Summary
Claiming budget pressures, businesses continue to cling to hope-and-pray approaches when it comes to DDoS, rather than deploying effective prevention technology. At the government level, law enforcement agencies and military organizations spend billions of dollars to protect public infrastructure, diverting tax revenue and defense resources from other projects. When hacktivist groups target these political bodies or financial institutions, making aggressive demands to accompany their cyberattacks and acting on extreme impulses, it becomes a matter of national security even beyond that of the initial profit and productivity concerns. In the broadest view of victims, DDoS impacts whole societies, which struggle with destabilized Internet access and the potential for wider economic catastrophe. Surprisingly, many teams still decide to ignore these threats, adopt prevention plans that arent strong enough to be effective or put off investments until they are attacked.