The offer is aimed at public health facilities, authorities and educational institutions and is valid until September 2020
Link11, one of Europe’s leading IT security providers in the field of cyber resilience, is offering its DDoS protection solutions free of charge to all healthcare , government, and educational organizations during the highly contagious spread of the coronavirus .
Cyber criminals exploit the digital emergency situation caused by the coronavirus Corona virus
Cybercriminals are increasingly attempting chinese overseas africa database to exploit the high public interest in COVID-19. The public sector is particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks , and the availability of critical public infrastructure is more important than ever as the general public seeks reliable and credible sources of information related to the pandemic.
Governments around the world are taking measures to stop the spread of the virus, and companies are sending their employees home to work. This, in turn, is leading to a significant increase in internet traffic and a growing risk of cybercrime in the form of social engineering, CEO fraud, ransomware, or DDoS attacks.
During the three-week period from Monday, February 17, to Monday, March 9, the Link11 Security Operation Center (LSOC) recorded DDoS attacks totaling 20,349 minutes (over 2,860 hours). This represents an increase of more than 30% compared to the 15,612 minutes recorded during the same period in 2019.
Increased need for protection for the public sector
“Currently, it takes only minimal effort to overload servers and online services, which are already in high demand, with DDoS attacks,” says Marc jonathan bagwell Wilczek, Managing Director of Link11. “In light of the escalating threat situation. Link11 offers security to public healthcare institutions, government agencies, and educational institutions through its DDoS protection. The protection solution, which is part of the Link11 Cloud Security Platform, detects and blocks DDoS attacks. The service is free of charge and can be used until September 2020.”
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Just on the night of March 15-16, 2020, the servers of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were targeted with . DDoS attacks lasting hours in an attempt to “slow down the government’s response to the coronavirus… The attack aimed to overload the department’s servers with millions of requests within hours. Authorities believe a hostile foreign actor is behind this attack.”
The still widely used on-premises protection solutions and load balancing . Tools are unable to protect individual websites, APIs, or applications in the cloud against Layer 7 attacks. The malicious DDoS data floods can cause significant damage and bring everything to a standstill.
Cloud-based DDoS protection
Such as the Link11 Cloud Security Platform, belgium numbers leverages artificial intelligence
Machine learning, automation, and real-time detection to strengthen the cyber resilience of entire IT infrastructures and applications. It can be deployed in both hybrid and pure cloud environments.
