DDOS

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack occurs when multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers. Such an attack is often the result of multiple compromised systems (for example, a botnet) flooding the targeted system with traffic.

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DDoS testing should certainly be considered as part of your IT security testing and IT budget, and the priority you attribute to it may well depends on your business. E-commerce company may have DDoS attacks with a larger impact on them, while healthcare organisation have more risk of having sensitive data exploited.

DDoS tests can be highly customised to attack against certain protocols and traffic types, designed to fit the needs of the target; with that in mind, it is important to test against new threat risks that have been introduced into a changing environment.