{"id":213546,"date":"2017-06-11T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=213546"},"modified":"2017-06-11T13:01:34","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T11:01:34","slug":"ddos-attack-sizes-and-protecting-your-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/213546-ddos-attack-sizes-and-protecting-your-servers.html","title":{"rendered":"DDoS attack sizes and protecting your servers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Akamai has released its 2017 Q1\u00a0State of the Internet Security Report<\/strong><\/a>, which shows that the median size of DDoS attacks has trended downward since 2016.<\/p>\n

This is due to an increase in the number of lower-bandwidth attacks.<\/p>\n

The report uses data\u00a0from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, and provides analysis and insight into the current cloud security and threat landscape.<\/p>\n

The report includes a DDoS Attack Density and Bandwidth chart, which illustrates the number of attacks and the size of these attacks since 2015.<\/p>\n

In January 2015, the median attack size was 3.9Gbps. By the end of March 2017, the median attack size had fallen to 520Mbps.<\/p>\n

This decline was caused in part by an increase in the number of weekly attacks, the majority of which were smaller attacks.<\/p>\n

Growth in the number of small attacks has a more significant effect on the median than the slower growth in the number of large attacks.<\/p>\n

What the chart means<\/h3>\n

If an organisation has defences which\u00a0can withstand 1.3Gbps of volumetric DDoS attack traffic directed at its infrastructure, then it should be able to withstand 75% of current DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n

However, if the organisation\u2019s uptime goals are such that it needs to withstand 95% of attacks, those defences would need to be able to absorb an attack of 5Gbps or more.<\/p>\n

Even with this level of defence, it is important to note\u00a0there are still a number of outliers. DDoS attacks generating more than 100Gbps of traffic are common enough to be a concern.<\/p>\n

\"DDoS<\/a><\/p>\n

DDoS attack stats and trends<\/h3>\n

\"DDoS-INfo\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now read:\u00a0Expect many more 300Gbps DDoS attacks<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Akamai\u2019s 2017 Q1 State of the Internet Security Report shows how much protection is needed to fight off common DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":136506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3340,2242,35],"class_list":["post-213546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-akamai","tag-ddos","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213876,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213546\/revisions\/213876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}