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Yesterday, cybersecurity supplier Radware, introduced that Ukraine’s State Service of Particular Communications and Info Safety (SSSCIP) is utilizing Radware’s Cloud DDoS Safety and Cloud Net Software Firewall (WAF) service to guard itself amid the continuing Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Ukraine’s SSSCIP is liable for defending Ukraine’s state data assets, and can use Radware’s providers to guard the nation in opposition to zero-day and recognized DDoS and utility assaults.
“It’s our high precedence to guard the IT infrastructure in Ukraine,” mentioned Victor Zhora, the deputy chief of Ukraine’s SSSCIP. “Radware has helped us defend our networks, shield our functions, and bolster the resilience of our IT infrastructure.”
This partnership highlights that DDoS and application-level assaults stay some of the substantial threats dealing with fashionable organizations, not simply within the context of the cyber conflict between Russia and the Ukraine, however extra broadly as a part of the cyber prison group.
Defending the cloud from cyber conflict
The announcement of the partnership comes as Ukraine has been focused by a excessive quantity of cyber assaults for the reason that begin of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, which started with a collection of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks attributed to Russian-state sponsored risk actors.
The SSSCIP is utilizing Radware’s providers in an try to extend its resilience in opposition to some of these superior assaults that focus on Ukraine’s cloud providers.
“Through the use of the precise degree of safety, it’s potential to defend in opposition to very superior, excessive quantity assaults – whether or not they originate from hacker teams or nation state actors,” mentioned Radware’s Chief Enterprise Officer, Yoav Gazelle.
In the case of defending in opposition to superior assaults, Gazelle highlights that safety options should transcend conventional rate-limiting and negative-based safety fashions, and as an alternative use machine studying to mechanically detect and mitigate complicated assaults in real-time.
“That is particularly necessary right now with the expertise scarcity in cyber safety that organizations worldwide are dealing with. Organizations can not depend on options that require guide configuration and signature creation and should deploy automated options,” Gazelle mentioned.
When mitigating DDoS assaults, Gazelle recommends that enterprises deploying safety options search for suppliers that may mitigate each volumetric assaults and low quantity micro floods, burst assaults, and encrypted assaults, which are designed to bypass their defenses.
The DDoS and utility safety market
When contemplating that the average cost of a DDoS attack within the US is $218,000 and 60% of organizations report they haven’t any to reasonable confidence of their means to handle attack surface risk, it’s unsurprising that extra organizations are starting to spend money on DDoS and utility safety options.
At this time, each the DDoS protection and application security markets are in a state of progress, with the previous anticipated to develop from $3.3 billion in 2021 to $6.7 billion by 2026, and the latter anticipated to extend from $6.2 billion in 2020 to $13.2 billion by 2025.
Radware is without doubt one of the key suppliers benefitting from this progress, elevating $286.5 million in revenue final 12 months, nevertheless it isn’t the one one. It’s additionally competing in opposition to Cloudflare, which presents a DDoS safety service that secures web sites and functions.
Cloudflare has been acknowledged as a frontrunner within the 2019 ‘IDC MarketScape: Worldwide DDoS Prevention Options’ and 2017 ‘Forrester Wave: DDoS Mitigation Options.” It additionally lately reported elevating $656.4 billion in complete revenue in 2021.
Likewise, Akamai is a key participant within the house as nicely, providing DDoS safety as a part of its safety and edge computing answer, Akamai Edge Safety, which presents 200+ tbps of additional community capability to assist organizations improve their resilience in opposition to DoS assaults.
At the beginning of this 12 months, Akamai introduced it had raised $3.5 billion in revenue throughout 2021.
Though Gazelle says that Radware’s use of distinctive algorithms and machine studying methods differentiate it from different suppliers out there, by enabling customers to proceed to make use of regular utility providers with out degradation, even throughout critical assaults.