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In the modern cyber threat landscape, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are something witnessed all too often. They’ve been around for over 30 years now, wreaking havoc on systems and threatening every site on the Internet.
With the development of artificially intelligent technology, the frightening fact of the matter is that malicious actors will start to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) more and therefore attacks will become harder to defend against.
more →This month we are sharing a blog from our security partner Oracle + Dyn that takes a look at web application security and what lies ahead.
Websites and apps are increasingly under attack, so effective web application security must be a top priority.
Before 2008, data breaches were somewhat rare, and most occurred because of human error, such as the loss of a laptop, a USB drive, or some other media.
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Over the past couple of decades, since the birth of the web, automation of business processes has progressed at an exponential rate. Responding to public demand for services to be immediately available has been the difference between businesses thriving, or shutting down. One of the latest tools in the drive for organizations to automate and improve has been the recent impacts of machine learning techniques, known collectively (if incorrectly) as “Artificial Intelligence” or AI.
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High Wycombe, UK – 13th September 2018
activereach invited local charities Thames Valley Air Ambulance and Hearing Dogs for Deaf People to its offices today – both charities had previously been chosen by activereach staff as their “charities of the year”. The charities delivered presentations to the activereach staff, involving real-life stories of their life-changing work.
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In Fujitsu’s global survey of consumer attitudes, 88% of people say they are worried about who has access to their data. It seems that you are not alone in your concerns about data privacy. With the inexorable rise of cloud service adoption over recent years, cloud systems and eco-systems of numerous cloud service providers are proving notoriously hard to secure.
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A WAF, standing for a Web Application Firewall, serves the purpose of protecting one or more web applications from being breached. They are widely deployed amongst businesses to help keep company records and customer information secure. Gartner notes that customers characterised WAFs as regularly being ‘frustrating’ and ‘a disappointment’. As the web becomes more complex, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for hardware vendors to meet existing and evolving requirements, such as moving web applications to cloud infrastructure (IaaS).
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In a 2018 report by McAfee and the Centre for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), it was found that cyber-crime has a global impact of $600 billion every year on businesses, through everything from losses due to system closures to reputation damage. This has affected many companies, with an attack now being a very real possibility for a lot of organizations.
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August has seen multiple online gaming sites hit with DDoS attacks, causing tournaments to be halted and players needing reimbursement. Some of these attacks have taken domains offline, lasting for several hours and preventing players from entering the system or playing any games.
DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service, meaning that the target site gets flooded with illegitimate requests, which prevents real customers from connecting.
more →We learnt a huge amount as a result of doing the DDoS test simulation. It was better doing this in a controlled manner instead of waiting until we are hit for real. We now understand a lot more about our systems and our people have gained useful experience, which has only improved our readiness for a real attack.
We certainly see the real value of doing this on a regular basis in a similar way to testing our fire alarm system so that people and systems operate under real scenarios efficiently.
The top 3 security incidents recorded in 2017 were DDoS, users losing devices, and phishing.
Source: 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report 11th edition
Solution: activereach is a DDoS mitigation and testing specialist to help businesses counter the most common incident faced by security teams.
