DDoS attack protection: Five best practice tips

Cybercriminals are smarter, stealthier and more adaptive. Traditional defence methods are no longer able to match the sophisticated disruption of a modern distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. In order to keep safe, organisations must keep up with the hackers. Drawing on successes and hands-on engagements with customers in a range of industries, Verisign looks at DDoS mitigation challenges and presents this white paper with five best practices to arm organisations against attack. The white paper looks at: - Understanding trends - Building incident response teams - Enhancing rule sets as attacks change