DDoS

How it is used

Usually pronounced 'dee-doss'. The single-source version is a DoS attack. Companies buy DDoS protection or mitigation from their internet provider or a cloud service; the traffic often comes from a botnet.

Example sentences

1. The online banking site was down for an hour because of a DDoS attack.

2. Our DDoS protection absorbed the traffic before it reached the data centre.

Common collocations

• DDoS attack
• DDoS protection
• DDoS mitigation
• volumetric DDoS

Related terms

• botnetA network of many infected computers or devices, called bots, that an attacker controls remotely and uses together, for example to send spam or run DDoS attacks.
• firewallA hardware device or piece of software that checks network traffic and allows or blocks it according to a set of security rules.
• web application firewallA firewall that sits in front of web applications and filters HTTP traffic to block common web attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting.
• threat actorA person or group responsible for a cyberattack or threat, such as a criminal gang, a state-backed group, a hacktivist or a malicious insider.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• DDoS · Software Engineering

More terms: Threats and Attacks

• threat
• phishing
• exploit
• compromise
• social engineering
• attack surface
• brute-force attack
• privilege escalation
• lateral movement
• SQL injection
• cross-site scripting
• man-in-the-middle attack