Cyber attacks happen every day that is why a lot of business owners are recommended to get distributed denial-of-service or DDoS mitigation services from a reliable provider. They should be able to design network equipment or cloud-based protection service to successfully counter the attack.
Upon choosing a service provider, here are some factors you should consider.
1. Their network capacity
Network capacity will reflect the overall scalability available to you during a DDoS attack. Most mitigation services will provide you with multi-Tbps network capacity that is beyond an individual customer requires. Thus, you should ask what their services can provide in terms of network capacity!
2. Processing
This can also be measured, but in Mpps (millions of packets per second). Some attacks may reach 50 Mpps so if an attack can topple the processing capabilities of your provider, then you should find another one who can extend your processing limitations.
3. Time to mitigation
This is crucial as most attacks can take down a target in a matter of minutes, and even with cloud computing services the recovery can take hours. This downtime can affect your organisation for months. Therefore, it is recommended that you ask your provider for a test during a service trial.
4. Mitigation techniques for network layers
A DDoS attack can be countered once it penetrates your network layers. The question is what will be the mitigation techniques to be done by your provider to respond to that attack? These can be null routing, sinkholing, and scrubbing.
5. Protection of secondary IT assets
Network infrastructure is composed of layers of servers and other IT assets that would also need protection against a DDoS attack. Your DDoS mitigation service provider should be able to assess the risks and determine which components need to be protected.
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