By Microsoft Security
Microsoft mitigated an average of 1,435 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks per day in 2022. This trend represents a significant threat for businesses, as DDoS attacks work by targeting websites and servers to disrupt network services and exhaust an application’s resources. Threat actors will often use DDoS attacks to flood a site with errant traffic, resulting in poor website functionality or knocking it offline altogether.
While this trend poses an additional challenge for security teams, there are also many lessons to be learned from the past year. By examining core 2022 DDoS attack trends to learn which methods cybercriminals favored and which protections performed best, we can further strengthen our protections for 2023 and beyond.
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