Jan 21, 2009 - Anonymous the First in a Series of High Profile DDoS Attacks and Website Defacement Attacks
Project Chanology was launched in response to the Church of Scientology trying to remove an infamous Tom Cruise interview video from the internet
March 24, 2012 - ~60Gbps DDoS Attack Impacts Canadian political party elections. The DDoS attack delayed voting and reduced turnout, impacting Canada’s New Democrat Party.
March 16, 2013 – 300Gbps Spamhaus was targeted for naming and blocklisting cybercrime hosting enterprises, spam and botnet operations
Oct 2016 – 600Gbps Kerbes blog attacked by Mirai IoT botnet
1Tbps Dyn Attacked by Mirai launches 1Tbps multi vector DDoS attack against DNS infrastructure, taking many of the world's most popular websites offline.
The CSO office has more ground to cover and not enough resources
The expectation people have of software have changed dramatically over the last decade. We expect reliable and convenient services that are regularly improve in a agile pace.
The demand influence on how we deploy code “continues delivery”.
Developers are expecting to have more functionality moved from the backend webservers to be placed at the edge