Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to evolve at an alarming rate, causing major concern for CIOs, CSOs and CEOs across South Africa, says Bryan Hamman, territory manager for sub-Saharan Africa at Arbor Networks.

Not only are the attacks getting bigger (some orchestrated attacks are topping a mammoth 800 Gbps), but they’re also getting more complicated: with multi-vector attacks simultaneously targeting different areas of the victim’s infrastructure, and IoT devices like cameras and DVRs being weaponised into devastating zombie armies of botnets.

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