DDoS goes mainstream: how headline-grabbing attacks could make this threat an organisation's biggest nightmare

In mid-October, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack hit the headlines in a big way. Targeting DNS service provider Dyn, it rendered a significant portion of the Internet inoperable and left many high-profile web services unreachable for several hours. But while this was arguably the most visible DDoS attack in history, it's only one among many. In this interview, Paul Nicholson, responsible for global product marketing and strategy at A10 Networks, talks about how DDoS is becoming an ever-growing threat and what organisations can do about it. We’ve just witnessed the biggest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in history, which turned seemingly harmless devices such as video recorders into cyber-weapons. With both the scale and frequency of attacks increasing, many organisations are left wondering how they can protect themselves and how those defences should be deployed, whether on-premise or in the cloud. In this interview with Paul Nicholson of A10 Networks, we examine how DDoS is becoming an ever-growing threat and what organisations can do about it.