DDoS Attack Size Explodes Worldwide: SaaS and Cloud Services
Increasingly Targeted
WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
NETSCOUT
SYSTEMS, INC., (NASDAQ: NTCT), a leading provider of service
assurance, security, and business analytics, today released its 14th
annual Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report (WISR), offering
direct insights into a wide range of security and operational challenges
facing service provider and enterprise network operators around the
world, and the strategies adopted to address and mitigate them.
In addition to the survey results, the WISR is supplemented with global
threat intelligence from NETSCOUT’s Active
Threat Level Analysis System (ATLAS®)infrastructure. ATLAS
has visibility into approximately one-third of all internet traffic,
delivering a truly comprehensive view into internet traffic, trends, and
threats.
KEY FINDINGS
Digital Transformation strategies are under attack. Digital
Transformation is critical to service providers looking to capture new
revenue opportunities and enterprises looking to run efficient,
scalable, high performing businesses. This has the attention of
attackers, who are increasingly targeting these new services.
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SaaS Services: Threefold YoY increase in the number of DDoS
attacks against SaaS services, from 13 percent to 41 percent.
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Third Party Data Center and Cloud Services: Threefold YoY
increase in the number of DDoS attacks against third party data
centers and cloud services, from 11 to 34 percent.
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Targeting Encrypted Traffic: The increasing use of encrypted
traffic was reflected in the growing rate of attacks targeting it. In
2018, 94 percent observed such attacks, nearly twice the percentage as
the previous year.
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For Service Providers: Cloud-based services were increasingly
targeted by DDoS attacks, up from 25 percent in 2016 to 47 percent in
2018.
Getting Political. DDoS has long been a tool for online protests,
thanks to the combination of increasingly sophisticated for-hire DDoS
attack services and free attack tools that enable anyone with basic
online skills to launch an attack.
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In 2018, 60 percent of service providers witnessed attacks traversing
their networks that were targeting governments, up from 37 percent
last year. As political instability increases around the world, expect
DDoS to continue to be used as a form of protest.
DDoS Attacks Continue to Evolve. In 2018, DDoS attack size
exploded to a record-breaking 1.7Tbps in size, and the targets and
techniques continue to evolve.
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91 percent of enterprises who experienced a DDoS attack indicated that
one or more completely saturated their internet bandwidth.
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Attackers shifted their focus to stateful infrastructure attacks
targeting Firewalls and IPS devices. These attacks almost doubled from
16 percent to 31 percent.
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Of those who experienced stateful attacks, 43 percent reported that
their Firewall and/or IPS contributed to an outage during the attack.
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36 percent of enterprises experienced complex multi-vector attacks
targeting bandwidth, stateful infrastructure and applications.
High Cost of Downtime. For 2018, the average global cost of one
hour of downtime associated with internet service outages caused by DDoS
attacks was $221,836.80. Germany had the highest downtime costs, at
$351,995. Meanwhile, Japan paid the least for an hour of network
downtime at $123,026.
Survey Overview
NETSCOUT surveyed our service provider customers who can offer direct
insights into a wide range of topics, from cyber-attacks to major
industry trends such as SDN/NFV and Digital Transformation, to key
organizational issues such as incident response training, staffing, and
budgets. This year, for the first time, NETSCOUT also surveyed
enterprise security, network and IT decision makers across seven
countries, US, Canada, Brazil, UK, France, Germany and Japan.
Additional Resources
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Visit the NETSCOUT ASERT blog for
insight on various aspects of the report and to download the full
report.
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About NETSCOUT
NETSCOUT SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT) assures digital business services
against disruptions in availability, performance, and security. Our
market and technology leadership stems from combining our patented smart
data technology with smart analytics. We provide real-time, pervasive
visibility, and insights customers need to accelerate, and secure their
digital transformation. Our approach transforms the way organizations
plan, deliver, integrate, test, and deploy services and applications.
Our nGenius service assurance solutions provide real-time, contextual
analysis of service, network, and application performance. Arbor
security solutions help protect against DDoS attacks that threaten
availability, and advanced threats that infiltrate networks to steal
critical business assets. To learn more about improving service,
network, and application performance in physical or virtual data
centers, or in the cloud, and how NETSCOUT’s performance and security
solutions, powered by service intelligence can help you move forward
with confidence, visit www.netscout.com
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NETSCOUT SYSTEMS INC.
Maribel Lopez, 781-362-4330
Manager,
Marketing & Corporate Communications
Maribel.Lopez@netscout.com
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