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We provide a vendor neutral perspective on many aspects of IT security, DDoS mitigation & network security. Discover how to prepare for GDPR compliance, how to plan for and respond to DDoS incidents, and how to mitigate DDoS attacks in our expert white paper series. Our DDoS testing eBook also provides a DDoS response plan.

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eBook: How to Build a DDoS Response Playbook with DDoS Testing
( size: 2 MB )

Synopsis: DDoS attacks have become a fact of life for online businesses of all sizes. Organizations that conduct advance DDoS response planning and implement the right DDoS mitigation and testing strategies are far more likely to limit potential damage. This comprehensive ebook outlines best practices for planning and executing a DDoS response plan in conjunction with DDoS Testing.

You will discover:

the real threat of DDoS Attacks;
how to conduct a DDoS risk assessment;
why DDoS testing is so important;
what a typical DDoS test involves;
how to build a DDoS test plan template
how to prepare a DDoS incident response plan.

About the author: Max Pritchard is a network pre-sales consultant who has been designing secure business networks for 20 years with network integrators, ISPs and Telcos. He now works as a pre-sales consultant for activereach – helping UK businesses make sense of DDoS threats, designing, implementing and testing DDoS mitigation solutions.

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White Paper: Preparing for GDPR Compliance: A Technology Brief for Security & Privacy Practitioners
( size: 831 KB )

Synopsis: The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on May 25, 2018. Every organization — regardless of its location — doing business with EU customers will need to make changes to its technology, processes, and people to comply with the new rules.

This guide helps security and privacy professionals understand the GDPR requirements they need to start tackling with immediate effect and provides an independent perspective on the solutions available to help bridge the technology gap. The white paper also examines selected technological provisions of the GDPR, case studies in reducing data security risk and the practical steps organizations should be taking to achieve compliance.

About the Author: Max Pritchard is the Senior Pre-Sales Consultant at activereach. He has over twenty years’ experience in networking and security including working for Internet service providers, hosting virtualisation and automation companies and systems integrators. He consults with companies across the UK and Europe on IT risk management and cybersecurity solutions.

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White Paper: A Guide to DDoS Mitigation & Testing: Part 1 – An introduction to DDoS attacks and mitigating them
( size: 884 KB )

Synopsis: This introduction to the threat of DDoS and the current state of mitigation technologies creates a foundation for discussion of how companies can assess the risks associated with DDoS attacks, how to evaluate the various solutions that businesses may adopt, and how to test the effectiveness of their solution to make sure a business can continue trading using public cloud applications.

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White Paper: A Guide to DDoS Mitigation & Testing: Part 2 – Assessing the business risk posed by Distributed Denial of Service attacks
( size: 201 KB )

Synopsis: All UK business should understand the impact that a DDoS attack might have on their business. To do this, they need to look at the breadth of their IT infrastructure that might be lost under a DDoS attack and the cost implications of losing that infrastructure for a period of time. This practical guide to risk assessment examines the scope of impact of a DDoS attack, expected annual losses from a DDoS attack, and spend/activity required to mitigate resultant losses. It also reveals the motivations behind DDoS attacks and those sectors and businesses that are most likely to be hit. The paper includes a risk assessment questionnaire so that any business may analyse and predict the annual probability and frequency of a DDoS attack.

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White Paper: A Guide to DDoS Mitigation & Testing: Part 3 – Testing Distributed Denial of Service mitigation
( size: 703 KB )

Synopsis: In the final white paper of this series, we focus on the practice of DDoS testing – the controlled simulation of a real DDoS attack on a corporate network. DDoS attack techniques are changing rapidly, and the customer’s increasing dependency on public cloud, or 3rd party networks outside the corporate perimeter may be increasing the overall risks associated with DDoS attacks. DDoS attack tools are now regularly being used by cyber criminals to distract companies from data theft or other security attacks.

Regular DDoS testing should be used alongside penetration tests and vulnerability assessments to allow a company to identify where detection and mitigation systems need tuning to improve security posture and prevent a real attack.

This technical paper addresses many of the issues associated with testing a company’s DDoS protection service including the business case for DDoS testing, how to scale a test, what a DDoS test should include, the legality and ethics of DDoS testing, and other important considerations prior to launching a DDoS attack test.

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Technical White Papers

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Downloads (click to download)

eBook: How to Build a DDoS Response Playbook with DDoS Testing ( size: 2 MB )

White Paper: Preparing for GDPR Compliance: A Technology Brief for Security & Privacy Practitioners ( size: 831 KB )

White Paper: A Guide to DDoS Mitigation & Testing: Part 1 – An introduction to DDoS attacks and mitigating them ( size: 884 KB )

White Paper: A Guide to DDoS Mitigation & Testing: Part 2 – Assessing the business risk posed by Distributed Denial of Service attacks ( size: 201 KB )

White Paper: A Guide to DDoS Mitigation & Testing: Part 3 – Testing Distributed Denial of Service mitigation ( size: 703 KB )

section pages

Need PreSales Advice? Contact a Security & Networking Specialist

Ready for the Next Step? Request a Product Demo

Working out your budget? Request a Quotation

What our customers say

Did you know?

Enquire

eBook: How to Build a DDoS Response Playbook with DDoS Testing
( size: 2 MB )

White Paper: Preparing for GDPR Compliance: A Technology Brief for Security & Privacy Practitioners
( size: 831 KB )

White Paper: A Guide to DDoS Mitigation & Testing: Part 1 – An introduction to DDoS attacks and mitigating them
( size: 884 KB )

White Paper: A Guide to DDoS Mitigation & Testing: Part 2 – Assessing the business risk posed by Distributed Denial of Service attacks
( size: 201 KB )

White Paper: A Guide to DDoS Mitigation & Testing: Part 3 – Testing Distributed Denial of Service mitigation
( size: 703 KB )

Need PreSales Advice?
Contact a Security & Networking Specialist

Ready for the Next Step?
Request a Product Demo

Working out your budget?
Request a Quotation