{"id":5728,"date":"2021-12-02T13:25:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T13:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acefone.com\/blog\/?p=5728"},"modified":"2026-04-03T06:31:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T06:31:01","slug":"protection-against-ddos-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acefone.com\/blog\/protection-against-ddos-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"DDoS Attacks: What are They and How to Secure your Systems Against One"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the world of cybercrime, targeting of businesses is commonplace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is not just large businesses that are threatened by such attacks. Unfortunately, whether an organisation is big or small, the vulnerability exists. And it is important to be cognizant of disruptions that such attacks can bring about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is certainly an important topic for both\u2014your enterprise cloud phone system as well as your overall business.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Read on as you build your strategy against DDoS attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is a DDoS attack and what are its symptoms?<\/h2>\n

DDoS<\/a> stands for Distributed Denial of Service. In simpler terms, DDoS refers to a digital attack that renders a service unavailable for users.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In cyberattacks, this happens when a system on the Internet begins to send a targeted overload of requests or malware to a web server.<\/span><\/p>\n

When such malware or malicious requests come in from multiple systems connected on the Internet, we call it Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The modus operandi of attackers is simple\u2014swarm a web server with an extraordinarily large number of requests for a page or a barrage of queries to a database.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In both cases, attackers choke either the bandwidth or resources of the web server like CPU or the available RAM.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Invariably, there are initial symptoms such as a possible break in the network or just a server going down. Only an analysis of the traffic gives real insights into the severity of the attack.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, the drop in services can happen due to the unavailability of either or some of the following:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Servers\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Attached devices<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Applications<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Networks<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Certain types of transactions in applications\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    When a web server comes under such an attack, the disturbance may range from a denial of service for a short period of time to something as severe as the whole system crashing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    Types of DDoS attacks<\/h2>\n

    \"Types<\/p>\n

    While such attacks can come camouflaged in a multitude of ways, they all have the same underlying objective\u2014to choke the resources to a point where access becomes extremely slow or completely unavailable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

    These attacks can broadly be classified into three key types:<\/span><\/p>\n