How Retailers Can Protect Themselves From Cyber Attacks

On top of this, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks continue to target e-commerce websites, causing slowdowns and availability issues. DDoS attacks are on the rise, with the largest ever DDoS attacks in terms of traffic volume occurring in the first half of 2014. According to Arbor Networks’ ATLAS threat monitoring infrastructure, there were an unparalleled number of volumetric attacks in the first half of 2014, with over 100 attacks larger than 100GB/sec reported.