OREANDA-NEWS. April 29, 2015. More than one in five companies that suffered DDoS attacks found that their problems continued for several days, or even weeks, according to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International. The consequences of a DDoS attack can range from limited access to online services to their complete unavailability, but even a small incident can lead to financial losses.

The survey asked representatives of companies affected by a DDoS attack about the duration of the attack and about its impact on the operation of the company’s sites, services or infrastructure. As it turned out, in 13% of cases, the attack caused the complete failure of a resource while 52% reported significant delays in service loading times. For 33% of respondents, there were slight delays in loading pages, and 29% of attacks led to the failure of some transactions through the service. 

When asked about the length of the attacks, 32% of respondents said they were affected for a few hours. However, 21% of attacks reportedly lasted from a couple of days to several weeks.

The DDoS attack on GitHub, a service for the joint development of IT projects, lasted 118 hours. This is a typical example of a prolonged attack.

"For companies, losing a service completely for a short time, or suffering constant delays in accessing it over several days, can be equally serious problems. Both situations can impact customer satisfaction and their willingness to use the same service in the future. Using reliable security solutions to protect against DDoS attacks enables companies to give their customers uninterrupted access to online services, regardless of whether they are facing a powerful short-term assault or a weaker but persistent long-running campaign,” said Evgeny Vigovsky, Head of Kaspersky DDoS Protection.

In the event of a DDoS attack, Kaspersky DDoS Protection enables companies to temporarily redirect traffic via an alternative route, running it through cleaning centers that filter out junk requests and forward legitimate ones as usual. This means users can continue to use the service or site safely and reliably even while an attack is underway. To learn more about Kaspersky DDoS Protection, please visit: http://media.kaspersky.com/pdf/Kaspersky_Lab_Whitepaper_Kaspersky_DDoS_Protection_final.pdf

About Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Lab is the world’s largest privately held vendor of endpoint protection solutions. The company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users*. Throughout its more than 17-year history Kaspersky Lab has remained an innovator in IT security and provides effective digital security solutions for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab, with its holding company registered in the United Kingdom, currently operates in almost 200 countries and territories across the globe, providing protection for over 400 million users worldwide. Learn more at www.kaspersky.com.

*The company was rated fourth in the IDC rating Worldwide Endpoint Security Revenue by Vendor, 2013. The rating was published in the IDC report Worldwide Endpoint Security 2014–2018 Forecast and 2013 Vendor Shares (IDC #250210, August 2014). The report ranked software vendors according to earnings from sales of endpoint security solutions in 2013.