Jul 12, 2016

Cloud-Based or Provider-Managed DDoS Mitigation: Which is Right for Your Organization?

By Jordan Jacobs, VP of Products, SingleHop

Two facts are changing how companies think about DDoS mitigation: Attacks are more frequent than ever and are increasingly easier to initiate from anywhere in the world.

Simply put, the days when firewalls and a large enough pipe to the internet were enough to protect your network have long since passed. Any organization or website is a potential target, and with high odds of a given attack flooding homegrown defense tactics, most companies are moving their mitigation tools offsite. The cost of downtime — upwards of $9,000 per hour for small businesses and $690,000 for large companies — are just too great to risk going it alone.