Improving DDoS Protection – Free CSO Study

Learn how security professionals prepare for and mitigate denial of service attacks

The evolving threat landscape continues to change. Website defenses need almost constant updates. Learn how your peers think about the website security environment and how they defend their websites and web applications.

This report, ""Improving DDoS Protection"", includes metrics around the cadence and cost of attacks, and guidance for adopting a two-phased approach to protect your websites and mission critical applications from unnecessary risk. This includes enabling on-premise solutions to ward off certain types of attacks, and adopting technologies such as Akamai’s cloud-based DDoS mitigation solutions to identify and deflect malicious traffic well before it approaches your network.

In this white paper, you'll learn:

1. IT security professionals’ top concerns around DDoS attacks
2. The relative benefits of cloud-based website security vs. on premise hardware
3. The shortfalls to “legacy remote scrubber” approaches
4. The benefits of always-on security solutions
5. Recent technologicial advances in DDoS defense