What is DDoS ?

Can Your Website Be Found ?

Your website acts as the face of your brand online and making sure that it can be found should be your top priority. Domain Name System (DNS) is the directory system of the internet and is crucial to the performance and security of your website. You can have a state-of-the-art website, but if DNS queries for your website are not resolving to the correct IP addresses, customers will not be able to find your website. Even worse, your customers could end up on the wrong, potentially malicious website.

Because of DNS’ always-on, but behind-the-scenes operational nature, the security of DNS is often overlooked. In this blog post we’ll explore how our authoritative DNS product, Verizon ROUTE, ensures availability and accuracy of your DNS records, while also ensuring fast resolution of your DNS queries.

Read more: https://www.verizondigitalmedia.com/blog/2015/11/can-your-website-be-found/

Is Your Website Available ?

Imagine someone sitting in their parent’s basement, spending $10 to bring down your million dollar online business. Pretty shocking, right? Unfortunately, this scenario plays out regularly. According to Verizon’s Data Breach Investigations Report (2014), attackers can rent a botnet to mount distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks for less than $10 an hour. And a study by Kaspersky Lab found that just one DDoS attack can cause losses ranging from $52,000 to $400,000.

Read more: https://www.verizondigitalmedia.com/blog/2015/11/is-your-website-available/