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What is a DDoS attack?

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Mike Matchett: People have heard about DDoS. But what? What is DDoS if I if I'm running a corporate website, what is DDoS to me? Omer Yoachimik: It is. Well, let's start first with what it tries maybe to achieve. Um, the mechanism, the mechanics of it can vary, but the goal of it is to take your website offline or to disrupt the services so much that, uh, it's disrupting your business. Uh, so, uh, you know, for a lot of websites and services, even a minute of downtime can mean, um, a lot of lost revenue, churn users. Um, and then, you know, reputation and, uh, impact and negative impact to reputation and users going on, um, on ICS, the, you know, the formerly known as Twitter to rant about not being able to access the games that they love and so on. So that's kind of the goal of that of that cyber attack type. And the way to do it is, um, well, basically the flood your servers with more traffic than you can handle. Um, think of it like a traffic jam. Um, but that's kind of a very simplistic or one type of attack type. There's a lot of different various ways to kind of achieve that. Um, some are more sophisticated, some less.
  1. A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack aims to take a corporate website offline or severely disrupt its normal operations. By overwhelming the company's servers with excessive traffic, the attack can cause significant revenue loss, customer dissatisfaction, and reputational damage. The methods of executing a DDoS attack vary in complexity, but the common objective is to create a service outage akin to a traffic jam on a network.
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