Preparing for denial-of-service attacks with Talos Incident Response
Summary: Cisco Talos describes denial-of-service attacks as a persistent threat from extortion-style and politically motivated campaigns, with average DDoS bandwidth rising from 8 Gbps in 2004 to around 400 Gbps in 2015 and up to 2.3 Tbps by 2017. Talos separates these attacks into volumetric, protocol, and application-layer types, and recommends preparation steps including asset identification, dependency mapping, backup and restore testing, ISP coordination, and DDoS protection SLAs.
Bottom line: DDoS traffic has grown from 8 Gbps in 2004 to as much as 2.3 Tbps by 2017, and botnets like Mirai can redirect that volume at a new target quickly, so the question is whether your continuity plan names the systems that must stay online and who at your ISP gets the call.
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