Q1 2014 Global DDoS Attack Report

Q1 2014 01 ATTACK REPORT GLOBAL DDOS Compared to Q1 2013 as seen by Prolexic Compared to Q4 2013 as seen by Prolexic Q4 13 Q1 14 Q1 13 Q1 14 18% 47% Increase in total DDOS attacks 50% 36 Decrease in the average attack duration from Increase in total DDOS attacks 34.52 to 17.38 hours Decrease in application layer (Layer 7) attacks 35% 133% Increase in infrastructure layer (Layer 3 & 4) attacks 24% Increase in average peak attack bandwidth from 4.17 Gbps to 9.70 Gbps Decrease in average attack duration from 22.88 to 17.38 hours 114% Increase in average peak attack bandwidth from 4.53 Gbps to 9.70 Gbps 87% 590% Increase in peak packets-per-second rate from 10.60 Mpps to 19.80 Mpps Increase in peak packets-per-second rate from 2.87 to 19.80 Mpps PROLEXIC The Bottom Line: In Q1 2014, Prolexic mitigated more DDOS attacks than in any other quarter Now part of Akamai +1 (954) 620 6005 · www.prolexic.com