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DDoS Attacks and How to Mitigate them

Were you aware that a DDoS attack could bring down your website in a couple of minutes? Hackers focus on your website and load your server and network. Your website is unavailable and cannot be completely offline. It’s not available. We’re going to show you how to prevent DDoS attacks.

DDoS Attacks Definition:

DDoS is a cyber-targeted attack on a website or device that sends out a flood of traffic from a malicious attacker, either from single sources or from multiple. The primary objective of DDoS is to make a machine or network resource unavailable by disrupting the services of a host connected to the Internet temporarily or to its real user. If we do not use adequate security practises and tools, your application becomes non-functional.

The malicious attacker uses several affected computer systems or devices or IoT devices. The DDoS attacks are all more effective with compromise devices.

Types of DDoS Attacks:

  • Volume Based Attacks
  • Protocol Attacks
  • Application Layer Attacks

How to Prevent DDoS Attacks:

  • Traffic Monitoring
  • Define a DDoS Attack Plan
  • Activate WAF
  • Rate Limit
  • Passive Cache
  • Cloud Based DDoS Mitigation

You can read more in detail about DDoS attacks and how to mitigate them here

Some Of The Most Common Web Application Security Threats

7 Common Web Application Security Threats

In an endless fight over records, malicious actors and security experts are in. While the former tries to snatch it, the latter is trying to safeguard it.

Each year, innovative web application security threats are created by attackers to compromise sensitive data and access the database of their targets. As a result, security professionals draw on the vulnerabilities exploited and improve their frameworks through their learnings every year.

The aggregate frequency and cost of data breaches seem to be growing exponentially. This cost is high (approx. US$8.64 million in the US in 2020) because of developers’ inability to incorporate the latest changes and updates into their code to overcome already detected vulnerabilities. Unintuitively, 96% of web apps have some known defects and anomalies.

In order to ensure adequate protection against web application security threats, companies can incorporate security issues into the creation phase of applications. Regrettably, most developers tend to keep it off until the end.

Here is a list of the most common security threats are:

  • Injection attacks
  • Broken authentication
  • Cross site scripting (XSS)
  • Insecure direct object references (IDOR)
  • Security misconfigurations
  • Invalidated redirects and forwards
  • Missing function level access control

Read this blog to learn in detail about these security threats and how you can prevent them here:

https://www.loginradius.com/blog/start-with-identity/2021/01/7-web-app-sec-threats/