Carpet bombing DDoS attacks are an increasingly common form of cybercrime because they are harder to detect and block than a traditional targeted attack. However, FastNetMon provides powerful...
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How FastNetMon can reduce the cost of cloud based DDoS scrubbing
The increased severity and sophistication of DDoS attacks means that network security administrators need a collection of tools to mitigate risk. One effective option to reduce malicious traffic is...
The Rise of IoT Botnets: Protecting Your Network from Mirai Attacks
First used in 2016, the Mirai botnet is old news. Built by two university students, the IoT-powered botnet was initially used to extort money from games server hosts. A few months later Mirai...
Mitigating Application Layer DDoS Attacks: Best Practices for Online Businesses
Application Layer DDoS attacks are an extremely popular, and effective, technique used by cybercriminals to disrupt web-based services. There are several variations of application layer attacks, so...
The Threat of DNS Amplification Attacks: Safeguarding Your Infrastructure
Denial of service attacks all have one goal in common – to use network traffic to overload a target system causing it to fail or become unresponsive. For the criminals behind these attacks, there is...
Solving a large DDoS attack problem for a leading telecommunications consultancy provider
FastNetMon Stories: Here from real users of the FastNetMon solution MKE Solutions, a leading telecommunications consultancy, turned to FastNetMon to address their critical problem of enduring 35...
IT Leaders Believe Visibility is Key to Network Security
A recent survey found 81% of IT leaders believe network visibility is essential for strong network security and response. The survey, conducted by Forrester on behalf of Infoblox, reached 423 IT...
How To Choose the Right Network Monitoring Tool
Recently, we wrote about how network visibility can help organisations detect cyber threats, illuminate network blind spots, optimise network performance, and more. Today, we’re taking a step back...
Why is Network Traffic Visibility Important?
Network security is a critical function for any business today—and it started with network traffic visibility. To protect against increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks, organisations must be able...
Network Observability: A Key Component of Your Anti-DDoS Strategy
Network observability is the first step in preventing any network-based cyberattack. Without the ability to observe the entire network, there is simply no way to detect and prevent malicious...