Analysis

Brokers should prioritise ‘critical’ cloud security following largest ever DDoS attack

By 2022-08-30T11:10:00

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The attack on a Google Cloud Armor customer was equivalent in scale to receiving all of the web’s daily requests to Wikipedia in just 10 seconds

Brokers that utilise cloud services should be on high alert after Google Cloud revealed that it had blocked the largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever this month.

In a blog posted on Google’s website on 18 August 2022 – entitled How Google Cloud blocked the largest Layer 7 DDoS Attack at 46 million reps – the technology giant explained that a Google Cloud Armor customer was targeted with a HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) DDoS attack that topped 46 million requests per second on the morning of 1 June 2022.

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