WHAT IS A DDOS ATTACK AND HOW DOES IT WORK?

Posted on 19 November 2020

From comptia.org

Three DDoS attack stats: 7-12 hours, the median downtime caused by a DDoS attack. $5,600, the average cost per minute of downtime. $2.3 M to $4 M, the average cost of a DDoS attack.

The IT industry has seen a major increase of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks over the past several years. The December 2019 New Orleans cyberattack is such an example: This attack combined a classic ransomware deployment with a DDoS attack. The DDoS upward trend promises to continue.