How often do you experience DOS attacks?

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How often do you experience DOS attacks?

StillADotcommer 1 year ago

I recently changed positions, going from a relatively small, regional company to a working for a nationally known university. I almost never experienced DOS (denial of service) attempts before, but I sure do now. They rarely cause any problems, but the increase in frequency is amazing compared to what I was used to. Frankly, I had assumed that they weren't attempted all that often any longer. Apparently I was wrong. How common are these attempted DOS attacks?

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jimlynch 1 year ago

It's not an an issue that I've had to confront, but here's a good article on how to protect against such attacks.

Strategies to Protect Against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk59/technologies_white_paper09186a00801...

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bcastle 1 year ago

It definitely depends on where you work. I've worked in IT at a university as well, and DDoS attacks happened multiple times every single day. As you noted it generally isn't a problem because the pattern is so easy to identify, but they keep trying. I can see how it could be a big problem for a company/organization that rarely experienced them and hadn't prepared for it though.

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