Business operation systems like the Website or E-Commerce turns up to be the core systems particularly when the world is in the midst of an epidemic crisis of COVID-19. People have to work with social distancing norms resulting in relying on the use of the Internet. And that leads to the cyber threat especially the DDOS attack that can damage the online service operation as well as the business’ reputation and the company’s credibility. Thus, the business organization needs to protect their system so that they can run their business smoothly and efficiently.

DDoS attacks have doubled in the COVID-19 era.

The Distributed Denial of Service or DDoS attack is not a new threat, on the contrary, the attack has been used for a long time. The DDoS attack will utilize multiple devices with a flood of internet traffic to overwhelm the target server and its infrastructure and result in exhausting the victim servers' resources and disrupt the regular traffic service and damaging the business’s reputation eventually.

Lately, the DDoS attack can do even more damage for business than ever before when the business has embraced the website and online services to be the main channel of business operation. As a result, the perpetrators can get more varied result from their attack such as destroying the competitor’s website, reputation and plummeting competitors' sales, extortion the business to pay ransoms to stop the attacks, attacks for communicating their message or political purpose, trap the victim with the first attack before using another way of attacking them again and many more.

 Security Magazine has released a report on the trend of DDoS attack rose sharply during the recent COVID-19 crisis. In the first quarter of 2020, the DDoS attacks are 278% higher than the same quarter last year, and more than 542% to the second quarter reflecting that DDoS has been used to attack the servers 2-5 times higher than last year.

Not only the cumulative number of attacks, but the DDoS attacks are also more varied and are more difficult to detect. These trends tend to be continued and thus the damage caused to the business is constantly higher, in some cases, the losses can be as many as millions of baht.

DDoS Mitigation Guidelines

DDoS attacks are generally divided into two types: Attack by sunk Botnet or malware in multiple devices to be distributed the DDoS attack and another type is the destination device attack by DDoS.  From the business point of view, protecting the internal machine from the outside attack is as important as protecting it not to attack others.

Therefore, the principal approach to protect their machines from being used to attack others is ensuring that all of their devices are secure whether in setting access and deployment policies, setting proper network permissions, updating device regularly to prevent the new vulnerability that may be misused, installing an auxiliary system to detect and deter unusual attacks or activities, and educating employees not to take any risks, such as clicking a malicious link or loading untrusted files. Asides from devices used by employees, protecting network devices, servers, cloud services, and IoT devices to be secure must have to be done as well.

Protecting your website and E-Commerce system from DDoS attacks is very difficult and costly. To mitigate the DDoS attack is providing system resources more than the attacker’s or setting the DDoS Protection system is highly effective enough to handle the attack and filtrate harmless data and sending to the website or E-Commerce system as the perpetrator may use thousands to millions of devices to attack, so it's not easy for the business to be able to defend itself against these attacks.

 As Thailand's leading IT Infrastructure and IT Security service provider, CAT helps Thai businesses cope with DDoS attacks by design the DDoS Protection services so that internet service customers can be easily deployed the protection system and no need to invest in DDoS protection system by their own.

The business enterprise doesn’t need to install software or hardware to use this DDoS Protection service by CAT. They just simply choose to use CAT corporate internet service and enable the DDoS Protection add-on function, which provides security for CAT Internet users where traffic data is always monitored and screened by CAT systems first. When the DDoS attack occurs, CAT’s system CAT monitors and mitigate those attacks.

One of the outstanding features is CAT has invested in the installation of the DDoS Protection right here in Thailand so when the use of DDoS Protection does not affect its performance at all. At the same time, CAT also provide such the same DDoS prevention server to other 10 places worldwide and those CAT centers can prevent the attacks taken place from any corner of the world,  

The technology that CAT uses in this DDoS Protection service is intelligent and can prevent any types of DDoS attacks, from volume-based, application-based to highly sophisticated and difficult-to-detect Botnet.

CAT Offers DDoS Protection Services Along with CAT Corporate Internet Services to Help Businesses Work with Confidence.

To make it easy to choose the service for business organizations, CAT offers DDoS Protection services along with internet service for enterprise business (CAT Corporate Internet) which help manage and detect DDoS attack in the organization's network, ensuring business operation in the highest smoothly and efficiently and ensure that the website and the business networks are safe from DDoS attack and are available to service by professional team 24/7 so that they can detect the threat immediately. 

For those who are interested in CAT's DDoS Protection service, please contact CAT team immediately at

CAT Contact Center 1322 (24 hours)

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