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Not only were some attacks in 2016 massive
in size, but many others leveraged short
multivector attacks used to cause a diversion
against another real threat (typically
ransomware but potentially a diversion from
network exploitation or data exfiltration).
Because of the effectiveness of DDoS
attacks, vendors saw an increased interest
in DDoS solutions. The motives for DDoS
attacks continue to vary, and industry
research shows they may be motivated by
malice, political reasons, financial gain, or
the theft of intellectual property.
2018 continues to prove that any
organization regardless of size, location,
or vertical is a potential victim of a DDoS
attack. Thus, the DDoS market will continue
to require solutions that are dynamic and
evolving and are able to address attacks that
are frequent, large in volume, sophisticated,
and variable, using volume and application
flaws to overwhelm targets.
In the past, DDoS attacks were typically full-
on floods of malicious communications that
overwhelmed a network, causing outages,
loss of business, and expensive mitigation.
But today, the increased number of IoT
devices with inherent weaknesses and the
introduction of the Mirai botnet source
code and the Mirai derivatives like Reaper
and Satori has fueled the attack surface,
causing organizations to look for modern
DDoS solutions. n
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