As another ISP suffers another distributed denial of service attack, you have to ask yourself why a company would rush off all guns blazing into the cloud.
With the cost of acquiring the services of thousands of drones ever decreasing, it’s getting cheaper to disrupt your competitors during key times such as new product launches. For example, it wouldn’t be unfeasible to ‘organise’ a distributed denial of service attack that takes out your competitors website and mail servers for several days. Coupled with a new product version release of your own could constitute a severe blow to your competitors bottom line and credibility. Read the rest of this entry