Can your firewall and IPS block DDoS attacks?
More and more organizations realize that DDoS threats should receive higher priority in their security planning. However, many still believe that the traditional security tools such as firewalls and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) can help them deal with the DDoS threat. This post explains why organizations should not count on their firewall and IPS when it comes to mitigating DDoS attacks.
read moreAn 11-Step Program to Bulletproof Your Site Against Third-Party Failure
Everyone has bad days, and third-party content providers are no exception. If you host third-party scripts — such as ads, social widgets, analytics, and trackers — on your sites, then script failure is inevitable. Sometimes this failure is fleeting and passes almost without notice. Other times, a single line of JavaScript can cause your entire site to crash spectacularly. While you can’t control your third-party content, you can control its impact on your website’s performance. Here are eleven steps to protect your site.
read moreHow Much Can a DDoS Attack Cost Your Business?
Quite a lot, it seems. The Ponemon Institute study estimates that the average cost of one minute of downtime due to a DDoS attack is $22,000. With an average downtime of 54 minutes per DDoS attack, this amounts to a heavy toll. Obviously, the costs depend on several variables, such as your business segment, the volume of online business, competitors, and your brand.
read moreMobile and Cloud: The Growing Importance of Controlling Traffic
There are three main factors that impact the reality of data communications: where data is stored, how and from what device data is accessed and the amount of data that’s stored.
read moreWhat It’s Like to Get Hit With a DDoS Attack – An Inside View
It’s not always obvious to a network or system administrator that their company’s infrastructure is under attack. In fact, an attack usually starts slowly and it’s only as the attack progresses that someone takes notice. But what does a DDoS attack look like from the inside? What are the early warning signs? Who are the principle players? What steps are taken to mitigate an attack? What tensions and emotional responses does an attack produce at the various levels of an enterprise? In the following post, a system administrator of a bank provides an hour-by-hour break down of the early stages of a DDoS attack as experienced in real time.
read moreCase Study: How a 2-Second Improvement in Page Load Time More Than Doubled Conversions
Roughly 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned before checkout, and new findings suggest that slow load times are the number-one culprit. A recent survey* of more than 2,500 online consumers in the US and UK found that two thirds (67%) of UK shoppers and more than half (51%) of those in the US said that site slowness is the top reason they’d abandon a purchase. These are pretty compelling numbers, but what do they mean in real terms for a typical site owner?
read morePinpointing the Blame for Cyber Attacks – 3 Reasons Why it’s Harder than you Think
As the cyber security landscape evolves and attacks become more sophisticated and malicious, the question of responsibility has grown increasingly important. Despite the fact that in the wake of high profile cyber attacks charges of blame abound, pinpointing blame for cyber attacks is actually harder than most people think.
read moreERT ALERT: Cyber-attack Against U.S. Based Websites on May 7th – 4 Attack Methods to Expect
AnonGhost – A hacking group affiliated with Anonymous announced a new cyber-attack campaign against US websites named #OPUSA. The attack is scheduled for May 7th, 2013.
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