2014 The Danger Deepens: Neustar Annual DDoS Attacks and Impact Report

For the third consecutive year, Neustar surveyed hundreds of companies on distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.  Neustar’s survey reveals evidence that the DDoS attack landscape is changing. The number of companies attacked is up, but attack duration is down. Larger attacks are more common, but most attacks are still less than 1 Gbps. More than half of attacked companies reported theft of funds, data or intellectual property. Read the full report to learn how DDoS attacks have evolved in both strategy and tactics.