The surge in telecommuting provides more sources of DDoS attacks? Is it imminent to improve DDOS protection?

We know that DDoS protection is very important. During the epidemic period, telecommuting has become a new normal. With the help of new-generation video conferencing, instant messaging, online collaboration and other technical applications, the business of various industries and major enterprises has not been interrupted, but has become more continuous. Therefore, from a certain perspective, the technical capabilities and security of remote office are more important than ever, and they are the core driving force that determines the success or failure of the digital transformation of enterprises.
From the perspective of Internet security, the increase in the number of people working online and the surge in network traffic have brought not only high concurrency pressure on servers and networks, but also security challenges such as DDoS protection. Although telecommuting brings work convenience, it creates new opportunities for malicious attacks. Whether it is through remote monitoring or remote control of thousands of computers to attack, attackers can easily achieve the purpose of the attack. Because they are too familiar with the working mode of telecommuting and understand the fragility of the Internet better.
DDoS attacks are not a new method, but with the evolution of Internet technology and architecture, the scale of DDoS attacks has grown from the initial hundreds of megabytes to hundreds of gigabytes, and even the scale of T. Many people may say that DDoS attacks have not occurred in the past one or two years in large global attacks. Does this mean that DDoS attacks are outdated and there is no need for DDoS protection?
On the contrary, judging from the data monitored by related platforms, DDoS attacks have increased during the epidemic, which shows that DDoS protection is becoming more and more important, especially after the epidemic, DDoS attacks have begun to appear in more complex forms. From the perspective of industry division, the gaming industry is the industry that suffers the most from DDoS attacks; followed by online banking, retail and e-commerce. In addition, ISP and IDC are also hardest hit areas.
Based on the data monitored by the relevant platform in early June, the global DDoS attack traffic against Internet hosting service providers reached 1.44 Tbps, which is the largest single attack flow. The attack lasts for two hours and combines large traffic, Nine types of mixed attacks including small traffic, network layer, and application layer.
Another noteworthy case occurred on June 21. A European bank encountered its largest PPS (Processing Packets Per Second) in its history. This value is an important performance indicator to measure the resource consumption of DDoS attacks. The attacker used a lot of small packet attacks to construct a large number of PPS attacks against the bank’s infrastructure, and used a lot of new source addresses to launch the attack. The reason behind it may be that the attacker used more uncontrolled terminals to access the Internet for bots Network attacks.
The question is, how to effectively protect against DDoS? In fact, we can start from two aspects. One is that enterprises must have a platform of sufficient scale to mitigate the high level of attacks, detect phenomena, and adapt to the increasing volume of attacks. Second, we must have a professional security team to defend against ever-changing DDoS attacks.
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