Corero made an infographic from a poll of technology decision makers and security experts at the 2017 RSA Security Conference. From the study, they determined:
- 56% of respondents view DDoS as more of a concern in 2017 than it has been in the past
- 40% experience attacks on a monthly, or even weekly or daily basis
- 31% have experienced more attacks recently
- 45% view loss of customer trust and confidence as most damaging effect to business
- 85% want their ISPs to take responsibility and provide additional security services to defeat DDoS
- 46% of those looking for upstream protection, would pay their providers for such a service
- 74% of those willing to pay, would spend up to 25% of their total ISP spend/budget to eliminate the problem via their ISP
- 58% continue to use homegrown or traditional security infrastructure to try and mitigate DDoS attacks
I am actually surprised that it is only 56% as the Mirai botnet flexed its muscle and the Dyn takedown impacted several large sites near the end of 2016. See the infographic below and the press release for more details.
(Credit: Corero)