Ep. 145 DDOS Attacks & Federal Agencies

Cybersecurity threats are like fashion; wait a few years and they come back in style.

The Internet was designed to take a series of digits and resolve them to a website address. This was deemed the Domain Name Service, or DNS. In 1996, we saw the first malicious actor flooding a system with an attack. This was called a Distributed Denial of Service Attack, or DDOS.

Over the years new methods of attack have proliferated and DDOS has taken a back seat. However, the number of endpoints has risen exponentially. It certainly looks like we are in a perfect storm to revive good old-fashioned DDOS.

During today’s interview, Rob San Martin tells the audience that Akamai processes over 11 trillion DNS requests a day and can see trends. According to Akamai’s internal threat intelligence, in 2023, 60% of DDOS attacks had a DNS component.

Looks like we are Back to the Future!

Sean Lyons from Akamai shared an amazing story from last year. A local government was attacked more than 6,000 times. This attack was sustained for over three- and one-half hours.

If you work for a federal agency and are looking for an on-premises solution for this problem, you may want to consider Akamai’s new offering in hybrid DNS infrastructure security called Shield NS53.

Listen to the interview to gain a better understanding of options for controlling DNS issues in your system.

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