As cloud use grows, so will rate of DDoS attacks

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: David Linthicum.

The eighth annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report, from security provider Arbor Networks, reveals how both cloud service providers and traditional data centers are under attack. The report examined a 12-month period and asked 200 security-based questions of 130 enterprise and network operations professionals. The key findings follow:

• 94 percent of data center managers reported some type of security attacks
• 76 percent had to deal with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on their customers
• 43 percent had partial or total infrastructure outages due to DDoS
• 14 percent had to deal with attacks targeting a cloud service

The report concluded that cloud services are very tempting for DDoS attackers, who now focus mainly on private data centers. It’s safe to assume that, as more cloud services come into use, DDoS attacks on them will become more commonplace…

Arbor Networks is not the only company that cites the rise of DDoS attacks on cloud computing. Stratsec, in a report published last year, stated that some cloud providers are being infiltrated in botnet-style attacks. This should not surprise anyone. In my days as CTO and CEO of cloud providers, these kinds of attacks were commonplace. Indeed, it became a game of whack-a-mole to keep them at bay, which was also the case at other cloud providers that suffered daily attacks…

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