How to Prevent DDoS Attacks
Robust DDoS prevention techniques are critical for any business. Remember, a DDoS attack can break your website in seconds. If your website becomes inaccessible, you may lose visitors and potential customers.
Failure to take immediate action to save the situation might leave your business grounded. Reclaiming your website from a DDoS attack can be costly for both small and large organizations. There are various ways of safeguarding your website and preventing DDoS attacks, as we shall see below.
DDoS Prevention Techniques
DDoS prevention is possible with proper planning, and by adopting robust security measures. DDoS attacks can occur in small and large businesses for various reasons. Read on to understand some of the techniques you can adopt to secure your organization.
1.Have a Strategy
Configure a DDOS response strategy. Having a plan means assessing your system and handling potential security vulnerabilities. Further, you should have a precise response from your company to handle any emergencies.
2.Leverage a Content Distribution Network
Seeing that a DDoS overwhelms your server, you want to keep your data on different servers located in various regions. A Content Distribution Network will come in handy in this case. CDNs transmit data to users from a server that is close to their location for enhanced performance. Using a CDN reduces your vulnerability to attacks, because should one server fail, the others will still be operational.
3.Adopt Protection Tools
Adopt proper protection tools for your applications and networks. Some of these tools can be network tracking software, firewalls, anti-malware and anti-virus programs, and threat detecting systems. These tools help you track your network traffic and configure alerts for strange occurrences.
4.Update Your Systems
Ensure all your systems are up to date and fix any issues immediately. Recognizing threats as early as possible is an ideal DDoS prevention technique. Leverage this strategy to safeguard your network infrastructures and clients.
5.Implement Anti-DDoS Software and Hardware Modules
Use specialized web applications and network firewalls to protect your servers. You may want to use load balancers too. Many hardware dealers today incorporate software protection to guard against DDoS protocol seizures like SYN flood attacks.
They achieve this by analyzing the number of incomplete connections available and destroying them once the number hits a configurable value. Some software modules can be included in web server software to offer some DDoS prevention performance.
6.Leverage a DDoS Protection Equipment
Many security dealers offer equipment that rests beside network firewalls and is structured to restrict DDoS attacks before they can occur. They achieve this with various techniques like conducting traffic baselining before blocking unusual traffic. They also limit traffic according to strange signatures.
The drawback of this DDoS prevention concept is that the appliances are restricted in the quantity of traffic generation they can manage. High-quality equipment can evaluate incoming traffic at up to 80 Gbps. However, DDoS attacks today can be greater than this.
7.Increase Server Capacity and Internet Bandwidth
Why would a website fail or even go offline following a DDoS attack? This may happen if the site cannot manage the volume of traffic that an attacker generates. Purchasing extra bandwidth and increasing your site’s server capacity are excellent methods of minimizing the effects of a DDoS attack.
For example, let us assume your site can manage up to 500,000 users, and a DDoS attack generates 200,000 fake visitors. In this case, the site will continue running efficiently. Expanding your server capacity and purchasing more bandwidth prepares your website to handle more users.
Consult your hosting provider, and let them assist you to upgrade to a plan that offers you a bigger server capacity. Apart from boosting protection against DDoS attacks, increased website capacity can help you scale your business.
8.Invest in Advanced Network Hardware
Investing in superior network hardware helps you recognize unexpected spikes in website traffic. You will even be able to block these spikes permanently. Your network hardware incorporates all the elements that facilitate the transmission of data over a network. These include interface cards, network switches, cables that you use for system connection, and your router.
Great equipment helps you set up your network hardware to avert DDoS attacks. One way of executing your configurations is by adjusting your firewall settings to block external requests. This concept operates efficiently for enterprise applications that in-house staff members use. Further, it facilitates the efficient operation of applications and safeguards them from external users.
It is worth mentioning that network hardware can be costly, and small businesses may not afford them. In this case, using a managed hosting provider can be ideal. Select a provider that manages excellent network hardware to ensure your website is secure.
Finally
Both small and large organizations should have effective DDoS prevention techniques for their systems. You can spare your business from losses by being proactive and collaborating with professionals. Stay secure!
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