When the world hit pause during the pandemic, home offices, remote work, and the adoption of cloud-based business applications created new avenues of attack for cybercriminals. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, malware, ransomware, and other criminal and disruptive activity surged significantly. A report by Omdia found that there have been an increase in security attacks on enterprises since 2020 across network applications, public and private clouds, and fixed and mobile endpoints. Along came SASE, or Secure Access Service Edge, a framework that promises a better and more secure integration of software-defined networking and cloud-based security. Though the concept was first coined…
Samir Desai
Samir Desai
Samir Desai is GTT’s vice president of managed and security services. He has over 20 years of experience in telecoms product concept development, specifically in fixed, wireless managed data and information security segments. Samir oversees GTT’s global portfolio of innovative solutions delivering a comprehensive SASE experience to his customers. Products under his remit include Secure SD-WAN, Network & Cloud Security, Managed Detection & Response and Managed Network Services.
Cyber-crimes are changing and businesses need to understand how to protect themselves from falling victim to online attacks. Cyber-criminals are operating on an increasingly sophisticated level. One trend that particularly stands out is the rise in larger size Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. For example, in mid-February 2020, AWS reported its largest DDoS attack ever, where its security service mitigated a 2.3 Tbps attack. Across all industries, DDoS attacks ranging in size from 10 to 100 Gbps increased by 50% in 2020. While there are many high-profile cyber-attacks such as the AWS case, there are also many attacks that…