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What is Ddos Attack and why is it used?

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Question added by Faisal Abass Parray , technical support engineer , WEBWORKS LLC
Date Posted: 2017/08/28
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by Seif'Allah Fehri , Cyber Security Consultant , PA Consulting Group

DDOS - An assault on a service from multiple sources that floods it with so many requests that it becomes overwhelmed and is either stopped completely or operates at a significantly reduced rate. It's important for cybersecurity manager to consider DDOS because it affect one of the three security characteristic which is availibility.

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