There’s never a ‘good’ time to suffer a cyber attack, but there are certainly a few dates in the year when the financial and reputational effects of a website or email failure will be more damaging than others. One of those key periods is approaching right now for the higher and further education sector: clearing and […]
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By Clare Stonebridge, Jisc network security services manager and Ben Crowther, Jisc defensive services manager, 31 March 2022. Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are the malicious acts of cyber criminals attempting to disrupt computer and internet resources. These attacks have increased in size, frequency and duration over the past few years and continue to […]
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GEANT webinar on DDoS attacks
Between the 8th and 17th of February 2021 GEANT are running a series of webinars on DDoS attacks, including Introduction to DDoS attacks Details of specific attacks Detecting attacks Mitigating attacks Participation is free of charge to all NRENs and their constituents. The courses are aimed at network and system administrators, as well as security […]