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Growing demand for
managed security
Arbor Networks, the security division of NetScout, has released its
11th Annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR) offering
direct insights from the global operational security community on a
comprehensive range of issues from threat detection and incident response
to staffing, budgets and partner relationships. For the first time, nearly half
of the respondents were from enterprise, government and educational
organisations, with service providers at 52%.
“
Every day, businesses, service
providers and governments are
targeted by DDoS attacks and
advanced threats across the region.
With the raise of IoT trend in the
Middle East these attacks become
even bigger threat to all types of
networks. Cyber threats become more
and more sophisticated and require
intelligent DDoS mitigation techniques
that are constantly updated and
improved,” said Mahmoud Samy,
Regional Director, High Growth
Markets (Russia/CIS & Middle East) at
Arbor Networks.
“With increasing cyber threat
landscape in the region and
worldwide, the best solution is an
appropriate preparedness. Worldwide
Infrastructure Security Report shows
that 57 percent of enterprises are
looking to deploy solutions to speed
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incident response processes. Loss of
personal information and disruption
of business processes are perceived
as the top business risks from an
advanced threat.”
Top 5 DDoS trends
Change in attack motivation: This
year the top motivation was not
hacktivism or vandalism but ‘criminals
demonstrating attack capabilities,’
something typically associated with
cyber extortion attempts.
Attack size continues to grow: The
largest attack reported was 500 Gbps,
with others reporting attacks of 450
Gbps, 425 Gbps and 337 Gbps. In 11
years of this survey, the largest attack
size has grown more than 60X.
Complex attacks on the rise: 56
percent of respondents reported
multi-vector attacks that targeted
infrastructure, applications and
services simultaneously, up from
42% last year. 93% reported
application-layer DDoS attacks. The
most common service targeted by
application-layer attacks is now DNS
(rather than HTTP).
Cloud under attack: Two years ago,
19% of respondents saw attacks
targeting their cloud-based services.
This grew to 29% last year, and now
to 33% this year – a clear upward
trend. In fact, 51% of data centre
operators saw DDoS attacks saturate
their Internet connectivity. There was
also a sharp increase in data centres
seeing outbound attacks from servers
within their networks, up to 34%
from 24% last year.
Firewalls continue to fail during
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