The Early Days: 2004-2007 There were many radical shifts in scale to the Internet across this period. In 2004, the Internet2 backbone (Abilene) was upgraded from 2.5gb/sec to 10gb/sec. and was set to deploy the next generation Internet protocol, … [Read more...] about The Early Days of DDoS Protection & Mitigation – Part 3
DDoS History
The Early Days of DDoS Protection & Mitigation – Part 2
The Early Days: 2001-2003 Attackers across this period increasingly switched from being script kiddies fooling around like Mafiaboy to being part of a criminal organization. The implications for taking down a business network became increasingly … [Read more...] about The Early Days of DDoS Protection & Mitigation – Part 2
The Early Days of DDoS Protection & Mitigation – Part 1
The Early Days: 1995-2000 Business on the Internet didn’t really get going until 1995 when Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com and Pierre Omidyar began AuctionWeb, which would become eBay. There were very few defenses in place at that time, as the … [Read more...] about The Early Days of DDoS Protection & Mitigation – Part 1
A Brief Timeline of DDoS Attacks
The primary threat to Internet services is the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. DDoS attacks have evolved over the last twenty years from a nuisance to a serious risk to governments and corporation continuity. They have also gone from … [Read more...] about A Brief Timeline of DDoS Attacks