What is DDoS Mitigation?

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are one of hackers’ favorite methods to render web sites, services that provide internet, and servers unusable. This is why we definitely need to talk about DDoS mitigation.

One of the most commonly used techniques for S attacks consists in flooding band-width with large volumes of traffic. Although this can also be accomplished by overloading system resources with semi-open connection requests, or likewise, blocking web application services.

DDoS mitigation designates the means and measures adopted by suppliers to attenuate or eliminate the negative effects of a DDoS attack by screening flow, so that only legitimate traffic can come through.

Why is it important to have DDoS mitigation?

As mentioned before, DDoS mitigation is important to avoid losing money due to attacks against our networks. Nevertheless, there are other reasons to consider having this service in your company.

1. Service availability:

During an attack, your site or applications may become intermittent or definitely unavailable to users. DDoS mitigation lets you ensure that your audience may continue using them normally, and this will help your company’s reputation.

2. Business continuity:

When your site, applications, and network functions become unavailable due to an attack, this also means that inside operations may be sidetracked to take care of the problem. Thus, mitigation allows you to maintain the regular operation of the company.

3. Brand Protection:

We’ve already mentioned this before, and that is in the event of an attack, your clients may suffer a bad experience, which could lead to their considering switching to your competition.

4. Peace of mind:

Having an expert team help you with DDoS mitigation, will give you the peace of mind that your company can continue operating normally.

How to choose a DDoS mitigation service?

Before purchasing a risk mitigation service for this kind of attack, it’s important to make sure such service covers various aspects.

First of all, scalability. This means that the solution should adapt to the growth needs of the business and therefore, to the growing scale of DDoS attacks.

Secondly, we need to talk about flexibility. A DDoS mitigation service must be able to adapt to threats in real time and implement policies and rules in consequence.

Thirdly, we must consider reliability, which means that the service needs to function correctly at all times, even when it is only used at specific times. Finally, you need to have an ample network with integral data transfer that will make it possible to analyze attacks and respond immediately.

DDoS Mitigation through the Cloud

NGIN Services can provide DDoS mitigation to keep your company from falling prey to such attacks that can be very annoying and costly.

Either using cloud or managed security solutions, we can monitor activity in your company network. Any time we detect unusual traffic or malicious activity, we direct traffic to a cloud screening system that only lets legitimate traffic through.

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