According to the Global Cybersecurity Status Report conducted by ISACA International in 2015, just 38% of global organizations claim they are prepared to handle a sophisticated cyber-attack. This scarily small figure shows just how at risk we are. Cyber-attacks are becoming increasingly common; a 2017 Malwarebytes report found that the frequency of ransomware attacks alone has increased by nearly 2000% in the past 2 years.

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I have seen it so many times before. DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) tests are being commissioned simply to fulfil a “tick-box approach” to network security. Once purchased, those concerned move on to the next project. This is fine for most IT project deployments, but when it comes to maintaining effective DDoS mitigation testing, it is a different matter.

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Last month, Amazon announced that its public cloud offering AWS generated $2.88 bn in revenue, up 58% on last year. The momentum of the adoption of public cloud services by business seems unstoppable. Amazon Web services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google, IBM Softlayers and others are growing rapidly by addressing an insatiable demand for very scalable server infrastructure.

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