With increased significance and importance to cloud computing in the era where remote workforce security and virtual mechanisms are already at risk, new kinds of malicious attacks on the remote platforms have also made their way.
New advancements on Cyber platforms have brought new opportunities to cybercriminals to come up with stronger and more malicious cyberattacks to invade into protected data and a business’ privacy. That is when a software-defined perimeter comes into play! Let us understand better.
As per the reports from Cybint Solutions, the US FBI reported a massive 300% increase in cybercrimes since Covid-19. Also, 77% of organizations do not have a response plan to counter the strands of Cybersecurity attacks. It was seen that close to 93% of Healthcare businesses experienced data breaches over the course of the past three years and a total of 43% of cyberattacks are mainly targeted to small businesses.
These statistics are nothing but a clear picture of how our online presence and privacy are exposed exorbitantly to the malpractices of malware, ransomware, phishing, and denial of services. Among these cyberattacks, the one which is increasing every quarter is the DDoS attack abbreviating “Distributed Denial of Service” attacks. The DDoS attacks have been seen creating huge damages to the websites, applications, and programs lately with its increasing strands and numbers.
A recent study by Cambridge University’s Cybercrime Centre has shown a three-fold rise in the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, which are now being tracked at approximately 30,000 attacks on a daily basis. The change has been witnessed due to the new malicious attackers who drive the increase as opposed to the existing cybercriminals.
What are the DDoS attacks?
The DDoS attacks are the “Distributed Denial of Service” attacks that take down your websites, network, applications, and programs on the web with highly intensive flooding of security attacks. These attacks slow down or maybe sometimes take down your functioning permanently through the malicious requests that your server cannot handle.
DDoS attacks could result even from a mere amount of vulnerable traffic that could materialize your website functioning significantly.
How does a DDoS attack work?
DDoS attacks use the power of fake traffic by testing the limits of the website, server, and application. It targets the vulnerable and exposed end-points like the search functions. DDoS attacks make the perfect use of the army of Botnets to send a huge load of fake spikes of traffic on a particular end-point. These Botnets are majorly composed of IoT devices, websites, and computers.
This DDoS attack is then launched with the help of Botnets who execute their attacks and destroy the functioning of the applications which leads to prevention and deterioration of performance and slows down the functioning.
What is the ultimate motive behind DDoS attacks?
The main objective of the attackers is to slow down the performance of any website, network, or application and to disable the existence of data permanently. Moreover, the main goal of these attacks can also be to prevent legitimate users from accessing websites, servers, networks, and other applications.
DDoS attacks also disrupt the functioning of the business operations which ultimately causes a huge impact on business performance.
How are VPNs more vulnerable to DDoS attacks?
With the regular target on Website Infrastructure, a new trend has been witnessed during Covid-19 where a high number of attacks were tracked on VPN infrastructure as well. Even the low-intensity attacks have been troubling the VPN networks and leading to subsequent VPN replacement.
The low volume attacks fail to trigger the VPN DDoS defenses and it bypasses the defense without being confronted with the defense. On the other hand, the SSL floods exhaust all the server resources and break down the VPN infrastructure. VPN replacement could replace your VPN infrastructure but it would still be exposed to future DDoS attacks. So, it gets very important for a VPN architecture to be equipped with the best DDoS protection and a stringent defense system.
VPNs are found not to be compatible with handling the vicious requests by the DDoS attacks and tumble down when it actually arrives. With increasing significance for remote working and work from home mechanisms, VPNs are playing a major role in the process and these DDoS attacks could be a real threat to their work from home functioning. Hence Remote Workforce security could be a major risk if defense systems are not facilitated properly.
How can Software Denied Perimeter help you prevent DDOS attacks?
The Software Denied Perimeter known as the SDP is the unique and effective approach to counter cyber attacks and keep the assets, Cloud presence as well as the entire network safe from malicious attacks. It creates a black layer for the malicious network resources preventing dangerous attacks against your network.
The SDP keeps your whole network including your IT assets hidden from the unpredictable and undetectable traffic, invisible traffic, and even the Botnet traffic. The SDPs are of utmost compatibility with the existing enterprise security system.
With the help of Software Denied Protocols, the network attack can be mitigated effectively through its five layers of security control –
- Single Packet Authorization (SPA)
- Mutual Transport Layer Security (mLTS)
- Device Validation (DV)
- Dynamic Firewalls
- Application Binding (AppB)
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We also bring the most stringent and rigid defense base to your cybersecurity needs with the effective technologies of Microsegmentation and other security tools in order to create a robust structure which could fight malicious attacks of any kind with complete ease and make sure that your website, network, and applications never goes down.
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