A Their Story conversation with Sean Martin, Marco Ciappelli, and Imperva

The “waves” of ransom-driven DDoS — Distributed Denial of Service — attacks continue to come as the attack vectors, techniques, and targets continue to evolve. Where does this leave us? Let's look to the DDoS Threat Landscape Report from Imperva to glean some answers.

As we connect with David Elmaleh, during this episode, we quickly realize there is a lot to catch up on — past, present and future — for what appears to be a never-ending problem in DDoS. Attacks seems to be be repeatedly targeting the same victims and are coming more quickly and running for shorter periods. Don't be fooled, however, the financial impact due to the unplanned and seemingly-uncontrolled downtime is wreaking havoc on industries and organizations all around the globe.

In addition to leveraging new techniques, bad actors are also using advanced technologies — artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G to name but a few — to do their dirty deeds. They are investing in these technologies to help them scale their operations to reach more targets with fewer resources. On the other side of this coin, the bad actors' deep understanding of these technologies and the new, modern architectures and infrastructures that companies are building with them, makes them prime targets as well. The expanded business capabilities using these advanced technologies equate to expanded attack surface for the DDoS slingers to target.

We cover a lot from the first 2 quarters of this quarterly report while also getting to hear what some real-world cases from Imperva customers sound and look like.

It's time we found a way to handle these distributed attacks. Have a listen to hear what your business can do to mitigate this risk.

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Guest
David Elmaleh
Director, Product Management | Edge Cloud Security at Imperva [@Imperva]
On Linkedin | https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidelmaleh/

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