Tech Update: Cyber attacks! Are you vulnerable?
Distributed Denial of Service attacks stop you and your customers accessing your services by flooding your systems with traffic. And these attacks are getting worse. Our new tech update video has the latest.
In a record-breaking cyber attack, the largest ever DDoS incident has recently been foiled.
DDoS attacks – that’s Distributed Denial of Service – flood your network with online requests, causing your systems to collapse under the weight of traffic.
At its peak, this huge attack exceeded 71 million requests for data… every SECOND.
The size and sophistication of attacks has been rising all the time, and they’re becoming more common.
So it’s worrying that many small businesses don’t have security in place that would cope with an attack of this kind.
Check with your IT professional that your systems and firewalls are up to the task.
If you need to talk about your cyber security with a local expert, get in touch. We do this every day.
