“DDoS attack volume was significantly higher by the end of June when compared with 2H 2021,” it said.<\/p>\n
Netscout’s data shows that South African websites and apps had suffered 113,487 DDoS attacks as of 1 July 2022, with the average attack lasting four minutes.<\/p>\n
It found that the frequency of DDoS attacks on South African websites had decreased slightly toward the end of 2021.<\/p>\n
However, Netscout said malicious actors have ramped up their attacks during the first half of 2022.<\/p>\n
Netscout noted that the maximum bandwidth and throughput recorded reached 590Gbps and 54 million packets per second (Mpps).<\/p>\n
The peak aggregate throughput in one minute reached 9,375Mpps, while the sum peak bandwidth of DDoS attacks in South Africa reached 83,034Gbps.<\/p>\n
According to a Seacom report<\/a><\/strong>, the frequency of DDoS attacks in Africa increased by 300% in 2021, compared to the same period in 2019.<\/p>\n There are several different types of DDoS attacks, all of which aim to disrupt digital platforms, servers, and networks, making them unavailable to ordinary users.<\/p>\n Volumetric attacks aim to use up the target website or application’s bandwidth by overwhelming a network’s capacity with high traffic volumes.<\/p>\n These attacks lead to server congestion, ultimately causing the system to become unresponsive. Attackers may also use a DDoS to disable firewalls or other devices that monitor network traffic.<\/p>\n Application layer attacks are commonly used with volumetric attacks and aim to crash web servers with seemingly normal requests.<\/p>\n These attacks are considered extremely dangerous because they are hard to detect and mitigate. Application layer attacks can often go unnoticed.<\/p>\n Protocol DDoS attacks are low-volume attacks that happen over time, overwhelming servers and communication equipment such as load-balancers and firewalls.<\/p>\n These attacks are measured in packets per second and are designed to consume a network’s processing capacity to prevent regular traffic from reaching the site or application.<\/p>\n DDoS protection products are designed to proactively mitigate attacks by scrubbing traffic and blocking known attackers or malicious traffic.<\/p>\n Some of the best DDoS protection products and services available in South Africa are listed below.<\/p>\n Amazon describes its CloudFront<\/a><\/strong> system as a highly secure content delivery network that provides protection at both the network and application levels.<\/p>\n Its customers include Reuters, Slack, Hulu, and King, and all CloudFr0nt clients benefit from the automatic protections of AWS Shield Standard, at no additional charge.<\/p>\n Amazon says the product also provides traffic encryption and access controls, and the AWS Shield Standard offers bolstered defence against DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n Credit: Sundry Photography \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n Cloudflare says its DDoS protection<\/a><\/strong> protects websites, applications, and networks from attacks while ensuring that legitimate traffic is not compromised.<\/p>\n The content delivery network and DDoS mitigation company’s network has a capacity of 155Tbps and was named a leader in the Forrester Wave DDoS Mitigation Solutions report for Q1 of 2021.<\/p>\n Cloudflare says its 155Tbps network blocks an average of 124 billion threats per day, including some of the largest DDoS attacks recorded.<\/p>\n Credit: Sundry Photography \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n Google’s Cloud Armor<\/a><\/strong> product is designed to protect applications and websites against denial of service and web attacks, with customers benefiting from DDoS protection and web application firewall solutions.<\/p>\n Google says Cloud Armor detects and mitigates attacks against Cloud Load Balancing workloads, leverages machine learning to help detect and block Layer 7 (application layer) DDoS attacks, and helps protect workloads on-premises or in the cloud.<\/p>\n It also features bot management which provides automated protection for your apps from bots.<\/p>\n Credit: Jay Fog \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n Liquid Intelligent Technologies launched its DDoS Secure<\/a><\/strong> product offering in September 2022, and it is designed to proactively mitigate attacks by scrubbing traffic and blocking known attackers or malicious traffic.<\/p>\n Attacks are mitigated through one of Liquid Intelligent Technologies’ four data centres located in South Africa, Kenya, France, and London, to remove any malicious traffic.<\/p>\n Liquid said its DDoS Secure product provides higher visibility of potential attacks, while automatically mitigating threats.<\/p>\n Seacom says its Business DDoS Protect<\/a><\/strong> software is backed by global threat intelligence and fully managed and automated.<\/p>\n It offers four product tiers \u2014 on-demand, bronze, silver, and gold \u2014 that provide varying levels of protection, from on-demand mitigation solutions to holistic protection that ensures businesses are prepared for any attacks.<\/p>\n Seacom provides real-time on-premises, in-cloud or hybrid prevention, mitigation, and reporting.<\/p>\n Vox Telecom’s Managed DDoS<\/a><\/strong> service is based on the NetScout Arbor Product Suite and powered by Armata Cybersecurity.<\/p>\n The ISP says the service effectively detects and removes DDoS threats and mitigates attack vectors with multiple options, such as international or national scrubbing services.<\/p>\n It can also “blackhole” traffic by dropping bad results before they affect your links, meaning an attack can be stopped before it reaches the South African server.<\/p>\n Xneelo’s DDoS detection<\/a><\/strong> and mitigation system is deployed in its Cape Town and Samrand data centres and diverts DDoS attack traffic to a scrubbing server that can distinguish between valid and malicious traffic.<\/p>\n The service is fully automated and scrubs off malicious traffic while re-directing legitimate traffic back into the network. Xneelo says the victim’s IP is not affected during the DDoS attack.<\/p>\n Smaller DDoS attacks are scrubbed locally in the data centre by the mitigation system, and Xneelo diverts traffic to an international DDoS mitigation provider for larger attacks.<\/p>\n Credit: monticello \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p><\/div>\n Here are some of the best products to protect your websites against distributed denial of service attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341076,"featured_media":465851,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[51639,5288,29694,82053,35,82055,36083,49],"class_list":["post-465111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-amazon-cloudfront","tag-bitco","tag-cloudflare","tag-google-cloud-armor","tag-headline","tag-liquid-networks","tag-seacom-business","tag-vox-telecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465111"}],"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\/341076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nLiquid Networks DDoS Secure<\/h2>\n
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\nSeacom Business DDoS Protect<\/h2>\n
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\nVox Telecom Managed DDoS<\/h2>\n
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\nXneelo DDoS Mitigation services<\/h2>\n
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