DDoS Attacks:
Threat Landscape and Defensive Countermeasures

By Chris Holland

Imagine an army of 100,000 robots, each hitting reload on your home page, several hundred times per second. How quickly would your site or application die? Having had to field such attacks in a past life, I found surviving them to be extremely difficult. My odds improved over time from better understanding them and preparing adequately.

This article was originally published in the October 2019 issue of php[architect] magazine. To read the complete article please subscribe or purchase the complete issue.

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