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The cybersecurity company Akamai has offered details of an all-out digital war.
Every time the evil actorsin the field of computingthey are more and more prepared to be able to topple companies of any size and shatter your communications. It was recently that we were able to access the statement published by the cybersecurity company Akamai, which showed the world the scope of a DDoS attack with such a magnitude that they have been necessary 30 days to avoid a major disaster. In fact, it was the past July 21, 2022 when the security firm ended up mitigate the attackwho had a peak of activity for 14 hours of 853.7Gbps.
Learn how Akamai successfully detected and mitigated the largest #DDoS attack ever launched against a European customer on the Prolexic platform. https://t.co/HsAPdweOuJ pic.twitter.com/rYJ1jfYiMz
— Akamai Technologies (@Akamai) July 27, 2022
An information war that lasted a month and that puts the big companies of the continent and the planet on notice
The cyber security company Akamai has not wanted to reveal the name of the company has withstood this incredible DDoS attack, but has reported that it is a Eastern European entity. In the thirty days that preceded the mitigation of the attack, said company was put on the target until 75 times with attacks of all kinds, in which we will not go into detail due to their technical complexity. Even at companies as smart as Akamai, defensive barriers must be implemented in detail, since a small gap can end up with an unreachable connection, unhappy customers, and financial losses from which it is difficult to recover.
A European company has had to withstand the largest DDoS attack in the history of the continent
The cybersecurity firm has three pillars on which the defense of the attacked company has been based, these being its own platformthe staff who works in it and process that follows in this type of technological complications. Are more than 225 people those who work at Akamai, who dedicate their work, in six locations worldwide, to mitigate the most sophisticated attacks, for the companies most exposed to this type of digital outrages.
The recommendations of this firm in the face of attacks similar to what happened recently range from implement the recommendations of the Infrastructure Security and Cybersecurity Agencyreview the control methods regularly, hire a service provider in the cloud and ensure that plans before possible attacks are updated. It is not easy to stop attacks of this type, but for all evil there is always a way to fight it.
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