No modern business can afford to ignore the threat of DDoS attacks. For many enterprises, reliable online services are critical to operations and reputation—while attackers continue to refine their tools and tactics. As a result, security teams can’t simply assume their defenses will hold. They need to test them. The ... Read More

As a DDoS testing and resilience consultancy, we routinely advise our clients to strengthen their architecture by using a reputable CDN like Cloudflare. After this week’s Cloudflare outage, however, many organizations are understandably asking themselves a new question: Should we adopt a multi-CDN strategy instead of relying on a single ... Read More

ISPs face a few unique challenges and risks when it comes to DDoS attacks. Their size and complexity make them bigger targets for hackers, while their unique structural features require more tailored defenses.   ISPs can be both direct targets of hackers and targets-by-association, as they host hundreds or thousands of ... Read More

In the cat-and-mouse game between DDoS hackers and defenders, it seems protection vendors have made great progress in the past year – particularly in the realm of application-layer attacks. Unsurprisingly, this forced hackers to scale up their attack methods. Here’s what we’ve seen in the past year or so, in ... Read More

DDoS simulation tests fall into a different legal category than real DDoS attacks carried out by hackers. In the United States, for example, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act considers a DDoS attack to be a cybercrime with serious prison time and fines. However, the law also specifies that the ... Read More

As a cybersecurity professional, you always want to assess your risks accurately, so you can know how to focus your efforts and limited time. When it comes to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), we’ve found that there are three essential questions that need to be asked: How can you evaluate ... Read More

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks rose significantly in the past year, with politically motivated incidents being part of this upward trend. For example, Sweden’s election authority was hit with three DDoS attacks in less than 24 hours on the day of the country’s general election in 2022. A month ... Read More

Let’s assume you already have a DDoS protection solution installed on premises. You have even run DDoS testing, identified potential weak links, and tweaked your DDoS protection configuration to the optimal settings. Now comes the next stage. How will you identify that a DDoS attack is taking place? What are ... Read More

“Did you read about the 300Gbs DDoS attack last week? We must test our company’s resilience to an attack of that size.”   At Red Button, we have heard things like that from our customers more than once. But nearly every time, we patiently explain that DDoS testing at such ... Read More

One of the benefits offered by our DDoS testing is objective and accurate measurement of your readiness for an attack. Upon completion of DDoS testing, you get a detailed report that includes a DDoS Resiliency Score (DRS) – a numeric value clearly indicating the type of attacks your system can ... Read More