As cloud use grows, so will rate of DDoS attacks

JMH · Feb 5, 2013

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

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As cloud use grows, so will rate of DDoS attacks

JMH

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