IT service provider threats experienced and concerns worldwide 2020, by category

In 2020, 71 percent of service provider experienced inbound distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Service providers manage a gigantic amount of network traffic, such as video conference calls, gaming, or streaming video. At the same time, these providers must defend network infrastructure and services against DDoS attacks and other threats. DDoS attacks take advantage of the fact that any network has specific capacity limits by sending multiple attack requests to the web resource. The aim is to prevent the website from functioning correctly by exceeding that website's capacity to handle requests.