You only need to consider that more than 4.4 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks occurred in the second half of 2021, to know with certainty that such attacks are always happening. It’s not a matter of if a company will be impacted by a DDoS attack, it’s a matter of when.
But enterprises don’t have to cower and wait for the inevitable to occur. In fact, enterprises and service providers can block 90% of DDoS attacks with two simple steps: blocking IP address spoofing and controlling inbound traffic.
Blocking spoofed traffic
IP address spoofing occurs when a device forges its source address for the purpose of impersonating another device. This is a preferred move by attackers when launching reflection/amplification attacks. Spoofing the source IP address forces an unwilling service to send its replies to the victim under attack.
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