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5 Ways Automation Can Save Time During DDoS Attacks

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DDoS attacks can be catastrophic, but with the right knowledge and tactics, the chances of successfully mitigating the attack are greatly increased.

DDoS attacks can be catastrophic, but with the right knowledge and tactics, the chances of successfully mitigating the attack are greatly increased.

This is explained in this three-part series on the basics of good managed ddos services protection.

In this first part, we explore five ways that automation can significantly improve response times during DDoS attacks.

  • Instantly detect incoming attacks
  • Redirect traffic accordingly
  • Apply mitigation escalation strategies
  • Identify patterns in attack traffic to block zero-day botnet attacks
  • Apply current DDoS threat intelligence

In a hyperconnected world, DDoS attacks cause downtime, which means loss of money, so response time is important to all businesses. The longer the system is idle, the less profitable.

Let's take a closer look at all the ways automation can spend time during a DDoS attack. But first, let's clarify how much time an automated defense system can save.

Automatic and Manual Response Times

It is true that automated DDoS protection is faster than manual DDoS protection, but how fast is it?

Andy Shoemaker, founder and CEO of Nimbus DDoS, recently conducted a survey to investigate. The result spoke volumes: automated DDoS protection improves attack response time by a factor of 5.

The average response time using automatic protection was only 6 minutes, a staggering 29 minutes from 35 minutes using the manual process.

In some cases, automatic defenses could completely eliminate response times.

Reduced DDoS Response Time By Automating 5 Methods

The automated defense system reduces response time in five main ways. With such a system, you can:

Instantly detect incoming attacks: Automated DDoS protection systems can use the data collected during peacetime to instantly identify suspicious traffic that human observers can easily miss.

Redirect traffic accordingly: In a reactive deployment, an automated DDoS defense system can redirect malicious traffic to a shared mitigation cleanup center when an attack is detected. There is no manual BGP routing advertisement for suspicious traffic.

Apply Escalation Mitigation Strategies: During an attack flood of traffic, an automated DDoS protection system will act adaptively based on defined policies and minimize collateral damage to legitimate traffic. To run.

Identify patterns in attack traffic: By carefully inspecting large volumes of attack traffic in a short time, an automated DDoS protection system can extract patterns in real time and block zero-day botnet attacks.

Apply current DDoS threat intelligence - An automated DDoS defense system can access real-time, research-based IP blocklists and DDoS weapon databases and apply that intelligence to all network traffic destined for the protection zone .

The intelligent and automated DDoS protection system does not stop working after the attack. Mitigation of the attack will generate a detailed report that you and your stakeholders can use for forensic analysis and communication with other stakeholders.

While DDoS attackers never stop innovating and adapting, so do automated, intelligent DDoS protection systems.

By using automated systems to quickly identify and mitigate threats with the help of modern threat intelligence, companies can emerge from DDoS attacks as fast as malicious attackers launch DDoS attacks.

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