Companies that are not reliably protected against DDoS attacks, hacker attacks and information theft are at risk of data loss, downtime and additional costs. In a current BT survey carried out among IT decision-makers, more than half of those surveyed (59%) claimed that DDoS attacks are becoming more efficient at undermining their IT security, and 40% doubt that their company has an effective contingency plan for combatting DDoS attacks.
The downtime recorded in the BT whitepaper is indeed severe: On average, an organisation needs twelve hours to get back up and running following a DDoS attack. Two thirds of IT decision-makers report that their systems were down for almost a whole working day (more than six hours).