Microsoft Says It Mitigated Largest-Ever DDoS Attack

By Soumik Ghosh for BankInfoSecurity
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

• 2.2k
• 22
• 22
• 22
• 11
• More
• 21
• 21
• 21

Also, when deviations from baselines are extremely large, Microsoft's control plane logic bypasses normal detection steps that are usually needed for lower-volume attacks and immediately kicks in the mitigation procedure, the post says, and this ensures the fastest time-to-mitigation and prevents collateral damage from such large attacks.

Impressive Mitigation Process

Speaking about the mitigation process that averted a possible large-scale targeted attack, Ilia Kolochenko, founder of Swiss cybersecurity firm ImmuniWeb and member of Europol Data Protection Experts Network, tells Information Security Media Group that almost no on-premises infrastructure would resist such an "annihilating" DDoS attack, despite being protected by cloud-based anti-DDoS solutions.

Although many companies are reluctant to migrate their data to a public cloud, in reality, a properly configured and hardened cloud infrastructure offers capacities to automate security and incident response, saving time and beefing up cyber resilience, Kolochenko adds. Read Full Article