How to Prevent DDoS Attacks

Описание: You've heard of hacking and identity theft, but what about DDoS attacks?

DDoS stands for "distributed denial of service", and is a common way of attacking a website by flooding it with requests for information - in some cases, up to 20,000x more - which can make it impossible to identify legitimate customers from robots.

No business is safe, so it's important to understand what DDoS is, how it happens and what preventative and defensive measures are in place to reduce the likelihood of it happening to you.

Find out more in this explainer video from iluli by Mike Lamb – explaining the ideas and innovations changing our lives.

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Sources and Further Reading:

• What is a DDos Attack? https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/lear...
• What is a DDos Attack? https://www.kaspersky.co.uk/resource-...
• A 1.3-Tbs DDoS Hit GitHub, the Largest Yet Recorded: https://www.wired.com/story/github-dd...

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0:00 Introduction
0:28 What are DDoS attacks?
1:18 How DDoS attacks work
4:00 Prevention
4:14 Conclusion