Frequently Asked Questions on DDos Attack
How is DDoS detected?
DDoS attacks can be identified using two main methods: traffic flow record analysis for out-of-band detection and in-line packet inspection. Both strategies can be implemented using cloud services or on-premises.
Who is behind DDoS attacks?
DDoS attacks may also be motivated by political, hacktivist, terrorist, or commercial rivalry, among many other reasons. A DDoS attack can be launched against an organization by anyone with financial or ideological motivations.
How long can DDoS last?
A denial-of-service (DDoS) attack may last for several hours or even days. A week (or more) could pass between an attack and another that lasts only four hours. DDoS attacks can potentially involve multiple cyberattack types and occur once or frequently over time.
Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attack
Imagine a scenario where you are visiting some websites and one of them seems to be a little slow. You might blame their servers for improving their scalability as they might be experiencing a lot of user traffic on their site. Most of the sites already take this issue into account beforehand. Chances are, they might be a victim of what is known as a DDoS attack, Distributed Denial of Service Attack.
In a DDoS attack, the attacker tries to make a particular service unavailable by directing continuous and huge traffic from multiple end systems. Due to this enormous traffic, the network resources get utilized in serving requests of those false end systems such that, a legitimate user is unable to access the resources for themselves.