As organizations migrate critical applications to the cloud, cloud-based DDoS attacks and defenses have become a growing concern amid the increasing number of cyber threats. Unlike traditional threats, these attacks are increasingly targeted, sophisticated, and capable of disrupting services in ways that can impact entire business operations and business continuity.
As attackers are now directly exploiting APIs, microservices, and cloud workloads rather than just overwhelming networks, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to pose a significant threat in contemporary cloud environments. The result? If protections aren’t built for the cloud, even small-scale attacks can result in cascading failures.
Organizations are switching from conventional perimeter security to sophisticated cloud DDoS defensive techniques to combat this, which make use of:
