Feb 06, 2012 (TELECOMWORLDWIRE via COMTEX) -- Application delivery and application security solutions provider Radware (Nasdaq:RDWR) published on Monday its "2011 Global Application and Network Security Report", a compilation of security findings providing a view of the state of cyber security worldwide.
The report, prepared by Radware's Emergency Response Team (ERT), is the product of a security survey sent to a variety of organisations, as well as an analysis of selected cases that were handled by the ERT that focus on DoS and DDoS attacks and their mitigation.
According to the report, although some organisations do incur massive DDoS attacks, many more never experience a high-magnitude attack. Instead, these organisations are brought down by less intensive but equally serious attacks. 76% of attacks were less than 1Gb/s in bandwidth, with 32% less than 10Mb/s. Only 9% of attacks in 2011 were over 10Gbps.
Radware's ERT found that the type of attack is also significant, in addition to its size. A much smaller HTTP flood on the application level may do more damage than a larger UDP flood on the network. When evaluating DoS attacks it is important to understand both the size and type of attack.
Other report findings include: 56% of cyber attacks were targeted at applications and 46% at the network; Financial Services (28%), Government and eGaming (25% each) sites were targeted most; in half of the attacks, companies did not know why they were targets; and DoS attacks became much more organised, professional and complex in 2011.