How to Analyze the Business Impact of DDoS Attacks

As businesses move from traditional operations to digital operations, DDoS attacks can do more than just bring down a network: they can bring down an entire company. Understand your business’s weak spots now so you can strategize a defense that will protect you in the future.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to threaten the ongoing operations of businesses everywhere. It doesn’t matter what industry you are in, where you are located, or if you are big or small, the threat of a DDoS attack is a very real part of your organization’s reality.

The proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), which hit 20 billion devices in 2017 and is expected to include 75.4 billion devices by 2025,1 has exacerbated the DDoS threat. Most of these devices, if not all, have vulnerable web, mobile, and cloud interfaces, unprotected storage, unencrypted communications, insecure pairing procedures, and even hardcoded backdoors that make them easy targets for hackers to exploit and leverage for their own purposes.