Q4 2017 State of the Internet / Security Report

New trends in DDoS and web application attacks

Gain insight into how the changing cyber security threat landscape can impact you and your organization with Akamai's State of the Internet / Security report. Highlights of this quarter's report include:

Highlights include:

• How DDoS and web application attack vectors and strategies are shifting, and what to expect in 2018
• The continuing threat from Mirai and its latest variants
• Research into the surprising frequency of credential abuse
• How DDoS attacks against the financial industry evolved over 2017
• Guest commentary from Chris Kubecka, CEO of HypaSec

The State of the Internet / Security report is designed to help businesses and governments make intelligent, strategic IT and cloud security decisions. The report provides analysis and research based on data from trillions of Internet transactions each day across Akamai's global infrastructure and routed DDoS solution.