2. DDoS Attacks
DDoS attacks are brutal and
complicated.
They attack websites that drain out
available computing resources to make
websites unavailable to users.
Oftentimes, the website downtimes are
leveraged as a smokescreen by
attackers for other malicious activities.
3. DDoS
Protection
Requirements And Risk Profile
Multi-Layered Protection
Flexibility And Customization
A few pointers to help you choose ideal
DDoS protection are shared below.
4. Requirements And
Risk Profile
The first thing is to analyze the risk profile and
current security status of your business.
You need to take into account all potential
vulnerabilities and attack sources that can exploit
or crash your website.
Based on the analysis, understand the unique
needs of your website and research the available
options provided by dedicated or shared hosting
providers to select the DDoS protection that best
suits your business.
5. Multi-Layered
Protection
These days DDoS attacks can be organized
with minimal computing resources and these
attacks are not just volumetric.
These are facilitated due to the development
in technology and the capability of malicious
actors to make use of it.
There are also multi-layered DDoS attacks
these days and therefore, your DDoS
protection should also be multilayered.
6. Flexibility And
Customization
As every organization has unique needs and
risk profiles, protection from DDoS attacks
relies much on the capability of your DDoS
protection service to customize rules.
For example, your business might not be
focusing on Arabian markets and therefore
requests from users in Arabian countries need
not be allowed.
This can help decrease the DDoS attack
surface.
7. Flexibility And
Customization
Flexibility is also important in mitigating DDoS
attacks.
Your DDoS mitigation solution should be
flexible and intelligent to change policies and
rules quickly based on the analysis of website
traffic patterns and real-time insights or
provide a CAPTCHA challenge to the user to
avoid bots, or set off rate-based rules when a
particular user go beyond the set threshold of
requests from one user.