More than one in five companies that suffered DDoS attacks found that their problems continued for several days, or even weeks, according to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International. The consequences of a DDoS attack can range from limited access to online services to their complete unavailability, but even a small incident can lead to financial losses.
The survey asked representatives of companies affected by a DDoS attack about the duration of the attack and about its impact on the operation of the companies’ sites, services or infrastructure. As it turned out, in 13% of cases the attack caused the complete failure of a resource while 52% reported significant delays in service loading times. For 33% of respondents there were slight delays in loading pages, and 29% of attacks led to the failure of some transactions through the service.
