According to F5 Networks, enterprises are reported to be facing uphill challenges in dealing with cyber attacks. DNS attacks being the most frequent and highest priority threat and most difficult to deal with.
The reported statistic of cyber attack by enterprises are:
1.) DNS – 100%
2.) Network layer DoS – 98%
3.) Access of encrypted data – 83%
4.) Misconfigurations – 64%
5.) App layer DoS – 48%
Therefore, 100% of enterprises experienced DNS attack.
To mitigate situations, enterprises are pressured with extra works to constantly update security policy and infrastructures heavily since 2011. Reported typical cost per organization for a 12-month period is $682,000.
More than 50 percent of enterprises claimed loss of productivity, 43 percent of respondents reported loss of data, and 31 percent reported loss of revenue. Other costs that enterprises incur from attacks include loss of customer trust, regulatory fines, and theft of money or goods.
Traditional safeguards fall short in the face of constantly evolving threats. Of those surveyed, 42 percent had a firewall fail due to network-layer DoS traffic load in the past 12 months, with 36 percent failing during an application-level DoS attack.
On that basis, F5 Networks recommended deployment of Application Delivery Controller which provides integrated security feature for web 2.0 applications. This will help with the App Layer DoS attack experienced by enterprises on daily basis.
“With an ADC, at least if you do have an attack on it, you have the flexibility to adapt and shut down that attack vector, and your entire network or application is not compromised,” said a senior systems analyst participating in the focus group. “You can isolate the threat from the rest of the system.”
Furthermore, F5 Networks provides the following recommendations to deal with such phenomenon.
1.) Unify the security framework
The slimmer the framework the better.
2.) Understand attack context
Supports broad range of threats detection. From physical layer to application layer.
3.) Respond and adapt
Supports agile architecture.
4.) Scale to combat attacks
Supports agile architecture.
5.) Build a robust community
Leverage on the power of sharing to harness improvement.
By deploying F5 Networks solutions, all of these would have been achieved easily.
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