As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations find themselves rushing to meet the sudden increase in Remote Access VPN (RA-VPN) traffic as many employees are choosing to (or have been asked to) work from home. Unfortunately, this also offers opportunities for malicious attackers to launch attacks on the VPN infrastructure at a time when they know the impact will be most felt.

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We have always advocated DDoS testing your systems on a regular basis on the premise that it is no good waiting until you experience a DDoS attack to find out that the mitigation that you so diligently put in place doesn’t provide the protection you need.  But we know that many companies struggle to find the time to be able to run such tests.

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This month we are sharing a blog from our partner Radware who explain why DDoS protection is so important.

DDoS protection can easily be compared to a car’s airbag system: it’s hard to appreciate its true value until it’s needed. Like airbags, DDoS protection provides invaluable peace-of-mind and a constant safeguard against the lurking threats that no one wants to think about, but must always prepare for.

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In the previous article in this series, we looked at the business case for DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) testing. If you read this last post, you will probably agree that there are a number of features of DDoS attacks and DDoS mitigation systems that make DDoS attack testing particularly important.

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This month we are sharing a blog from our partner Radware who explain why DDoS is just as much as threat today as it always has been.

The nature of DDoS attacks is shifting, and while some organizations might believe that DDoS is a thing of the past, this is not the case.

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The IT Industry is full of terms and acronyms (see our DDoS Dictionary) and one that I have seen a lot of recently is DDoS Pen Testing, usually where Pen Testers are looking to include DDoS Testing as well.  I wrote an article a while back on Penetration Testing and DDoS Testing and how these work together. 

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We have reached that time of year again.  The clocks have been put back, the nights get darker, and the weather is getting colder. Halloween is out of the way, so we are all on the countdown to Christmas.  And part of the countdown includes two more recent American traditions – Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

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Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS is an attack where there is an attempt to render an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from multiple distributed sources.

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is a pivotal organization in cyber security advice and supports the most critical organizations in the UK, the wider public sector, industry, SMEs and the general public.

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