IDG 2017 Research: DDoS Strategies for Dealing with a Growing Threat

This report summarizes new research on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, which looks at recently-collected data and compares it to data collected in 2015. Overall, DDoS attacks have done the cyberthreat equivalent of “going mainstream.”

Key Findings Include:

• Large DDoS attacks over 50 Gbps have quadrupled between 2015 and 2017
• Growing number of companies are seeing average DDoS attacks of 1 Tbps or higher
• Organizations who saw 6 to 25 attacks per year has increased over four times in the last two years
• The network layer is still the most frequent target, with 29% reporting network level DDoS attacks