Article by Radware’s Eyal Arazi.
Recently a friend survived a serious car accident unhurt, thanks to her car’s airbags. I recalled the incident during discussions with a customer’s management.
They had not suffered cyber attacks for ages, and began to wonder whether they still needed DDoS protection.
But just as someone would never remove the airbags from their car simply because they have never had a serious accident, so they should not cut back on cyber defences just because they hadn’t had a major attack in a while.
Although the probability of attack is low, the risks are severe.
According to Radware’s 2019-2020 Global Application and Network Security Report, 33% of organisations reported being attacked by DDoS in the prior year.
While this is a threatening figure, considered from the alternative perspective, it means that two-thirds of organisations experienced no DDoS attacks in the past 12 months.
Stretch the statistic back, and it means that in the past two years, about 45% of organisations did not experience an attack, 30% didn’t in the past three years, and 20% have not seen an attack in four years. Even further back, about one in eight…
