Research Overview

As part of Frost & Sullivan’s ongoing research on Cybersecurity, we conducted a deep-dive into the Global DDoS Mitigation market. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), among the most common hacker attacks, overwhelms network hosts with invalid requests from 'distributed’ sources, leading to legitimate requests being lost or ignored in the ensuing melee. Everything connected to the internet is a potential target for DDoS attacks, and may focus on websites, ISPs, servers, and applications. Similarly, attack sources include hacked web servers, routers, as well as private and public IoT devices.

In a business environment where Cybersecurity continues to be one of the highest priorities for all enterprises, the challenges are accentuated by constant changes in regulations, rules, new threats and the lack of resources. DDoS is no different as enterprise struggle to maintain a robust security profile in view of high complexity, siloes, multiple stakeholders, and lack of compatibility among different systems.

Enterprises prioritizing digital transformation have to deal with an increase in complexity and vulnerability of IT and communication infrastructures. Multi-cloud infrastructure enhances cost efficiencies, computing capabilities, compliance and performance, and the risk of DDoS attacks. The DDoS decisions that CISO’s face today include (but are not limited to) understanding the normal traffic and anomalies, selecting the right vendors and ensuring that responsibilities are assigned internally.