Is your business prepared for the threat of DDoS attacks?
As businesses push ahead with digital transformation, the integrity and availability of online services are paramount. In parallel, network security threats like distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are now plaguing organisations of all sizes, whilst increasing in both intensity and frequency.
A successful attack slows down your network until it becomes unusable, crippling your critical operations. As it’s a case of when, rather than if, you will be targeted, all businesses need to be prepared, especially since an initial compromise usually leads to increased likelihood of further malicious activity.
DDoS Shield protects you from, and during these attacks and their wider-reaching impact, filtering out malicious traffic whilst allowing legitimate traffic through.
How can a DDoS attack impact your business?
The potential impacts of a DDoS attack can vary depending on the size and nature of the target, but can include:
Website or service downtime: This is the most common impact of a DDoS attack, and can have a significant effect on any business that relies on its online presence.
Financial losses: Downtime can impact revenue through lost sales or being unable to provide services.
Reputational damage: A DDoS attack can damage a business’s reputation if it is seen as being unable to protect its customers or data.
Customer churn: Customers may become frustrated with the lack of availability or poor performance of the service, causing them to go elsewhere.
Regulatory fines: In some cases, businesses may be fined by regulators for failing to protect their customers’ data.
What is DDoS Shield?
DDoS Shield is SCG’s advanced internet protection as a service offering designed to fortify your internet access. We provide a network-level DDoS detection, response and recovery solution that monitors all incoming traffic to our core network and customer tenancies to always keep you protected.
It ensures that your online services remain robust and resilient, even in the face of evolving cyberthreats, and facilitates compliance with standards detailed in the NCSC Denial of Service (DoS) guidance.
Your business can rest assured in the following benefits:
- Peace of Mind: 24/7 monitoring and protection to automatically mitigate threats, enabling you to focus on your core business knowing that your online services are safe.
- Cost-effective security: Tiered services offering the right protection option for your business and budget, all without the need for any in-house expertise or additional hardware.
- Scalable solutions: Protection that scales as your online presence grows, ensuring you are always one step ahead of threats without requiring additional in-house resources.
- Granular visibility: Ability to view traffic information and receive reports on your mitigated DDoS attacks instantly or on a regular basis.
Why all businesses need DDoS Shield
Think you’ve already got adequate protection?
Although your ISP provider might offer DDoS protection, most services don’t provide it to a granular level and may only protect certain categories of traffic. Additional DDoS solutions are usually part of a broader portfolio of protection services, so often it’s the equivalent of travel insurance without an accident plan.
Think you’ve got adequate bandwidth to withstand an attack?
The volume of data involved in a DDoS attack can overwhelm even the largest service provider, with multiple attacks that don’t require large amounts of bandwidth.
Think you’re an unlikely target?
With the increase of DDoS-for-hire services that cost only a few pounds, even small organisations are being targeted, sometimes as a stepping-stone to reach the intended victim.
Think you’ve never been attacked?
Most DDoS attacks go undetected, leaving the cause of the outage unidentified. This also leaves you unaware of how vulnerable you now are to further attacks.
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