Imperva recognized for Performance in The Forrester Wave™: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q1 2021 Report

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to be a major threat to organizations due to their potential to bring down operations, causing serious disruption to business and loss of revenue, not to mention the recovery costs. That’s why we are delighted to share that Imperva DDoS protection has been named a leader for a third time in The Forrester Wave: DDoS Mitigation Solutions, Q1 2021 report.

The report, which evaluates DDoS mitigation solution providers to identify and analyze the most significant among them, helps security and risk professionals select the right vendor for their needs and is considered a trusted source for technology buyers.

Imperva is recognized in this year’s report for ‘performance’ achieving the maximum points available in this category. Of course when it comes to defending your networks and applications from an attack, DDoS mitigation performance is critical.

In recent years the DDoS threat landscape has evolved with attacks becoming more sophisticated and attackers applying a range of carefully engineered tactics to cause as much damage as possible to their targets. Imperva’s capacity to mitigate with speed and efficiency in the face of increasingly more complex attacks places them in a league of their own.

For example, in the last couple of years we’ve monitored a growing number of shorter, more persistent DDoS attacks, or Pulse Wave attacks, (over 50% in 2019), which take advantage of services that are appliance-first then failover to the cloud.

With more and more organizations moving their applications to the public cloud while still using legacy infrastructure, they might have an ‘appliance-first’/’cloud-second’ hybrid DDoS solution in place whereby when an appliance becomes unavailable it fails over to the cloud. It’s exactly this type of hybrid setup that can be outsmarted by Pulse Wave attacks, as the attackers start with small persistent attacks on the legacy appliance to congest the traffic pipe, before ramping up and causing the appliance to fail over to the cloud. But the legacy appliance will have been prevented from communicating much of the attack data to the cloud because of the congestion, which causes appliance downtime and performance degradation.

A hybrid DDoS solution isn’t capable of handling an attack of this kind whereas Imperva DDoS Protection adopts a topology that deploys the cloud as the first line of defense rather than the legacy appliance, meaning we are able to eliminate the bottleneck created by the Pulse Wave attacks.

At the opposite end of the scale, in the last year we mitigated some of the largest ever DDoS attacks on record seeing significant increases in both force and duration. These attacks were unprecedented and exceptional in their size and intensity and were possibly a result of the global disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. But a noteworthy fact about one of these very large attacks was that, the force behind the initial burst was so powerful that it peaked at 674 Gbps in under 5 seconds. This is a stark reminder of how important time-to-mitigation is and to ensure that you have a high-performing DDoS solution in place that can start mitigation within seconds.

And finally, we mitigated a high number of extortion-based Ransom DoS attacks in 2020 mainly targeting large enterprise organizations. The extortionists threatened to launch a DDoS attack within a certain timeframe if the ransom was not paid and also threatened to begin a small DDoS attack on the company’s main IP address to prove they meant business. Any downtime, no matter how short, has the potential to cost your business money. With the cost of one hour of downtime for an enterprise estimated to be around 300,000 USD, the cost to recover from a DDoS attack highly outweighs the cost to be protected.

DDoS Protection can be compared to an insurance policy as being fully covered requires having a fast, reliable and high-performing DDoS Mitigation Solution in place. You might never need it, but if you do, and your organization is the target of a DDoS attack, you want to be sure your DDoS solution will guarantee performance.

Imperva offers the most comprehensive, completely cloud-based approach to DDoS mitigation, with premium DDoS Protection for all of your assets, wherever they are, on premises or in the cloud. Our industry-leading 3-second SLA and distributed network of 45 global Points of Presence means we are super-equipped to consistently block any attack, no matter the size or how fast it ramps up.

All in all Imperva achieved the highest score available in eight of the categories on the Forrester Wave DDoS Mitigation Solutions Scorecard. As well as for Performance, Forrester awarded Imperva the maximum 5 points for Speed of Implementation, Alerting, Service Delivery, Service agreements, Threat Intelligence, Product Vision and Planned Enhancements.

Download the report here.

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*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Blog authored by Grainne McKeever. Read the original post at: https://www.imperva.com/blog/imperva-recognized-for-performance-in-the-forrester-wave-ddos-mitigation-solutions-q1-2021-report/