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DDoS Day 2025: Red Button’s Expert-Led Cybersecurity Event
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By: Ziv Gadot, CEO – Red Button
CYBERInsights – The UK Small Business Cybersecurity Network
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As everyone in the security space knows, misplaced confidence can often be much worse than a known weakness. When you have an accurate idea of where your vulnerabilities are, at least you can focus your mitigation resources there accordingly. But if you think your defenses are strong where they are not, or you don’t truly understand the adversary’s capabilities, then you will always misallocate your forces and leave yourself open to attack.

Unfortunately, that is almost always the case when it comes to DDoS protection.

Our experience has shown that a large majority of companies are more exposed to DDoS attack than they think they are.

Why DDoS Attacks Succeed?

There are several reasons a company might not be properly aligned to effectively mitigate DDoS attacks. They can be summarized under three main headings.

• Technology: Companies need to obtain the latest available DDoS mitigation and digital asset protection technologies available. But that is not enough. In our experience, companies often fail to configure and fine-tune their solutions to meet their specific needs, which can undermine even the best of efforts.
• Responsibility: Many companies believe they are sufficiently protected from DDoS attacks by a third party, generally their service provider. In reality, however, this reliance is only partly justified. They are unaware of their role and the shared responsibility they have with their service provider in ensuring online assets are secure.
• Training: Even with the best approaches to tech and collaboration, the human factor is still irreplaceable. Companies sometimes discover that their IT teams are woefully unprepared for an actual DDoS campaign. They need to be trained and a DDoS response protocol should be written, followed, and refreshed or updated periodically. Otherwise, the ability to mitigate an attack of any sophistication will be severely compromised.

As a character in The Newsroom famously said, “The first step in solving a problem is recognizing there is one.” It’s well past time to learn that lesson about DDoS security now. The costs of delay can be far too high.

Join us for a half-day event in London, where industry experts will share insights on emerging DDoS attack trends and practical strategies for maximizing protection.

DDoS and National Resilience – Paddy McGuinness, Former UK Deputy National Security Adviser
DDoS attack trends – Manish Arora, Cloudflare
A decade of DDoS defence: the challenge of on-premise infrastructure – Sebastien Ceuterickx, Proton
Modern DDoS threats and defence strategies – Andrey Slastenov, Gcore
Account takeover (ATO) vs. DDoS attacks – Ziv Gadot, Red Button
Best practices for maximizing DDoS protection – Gili Birchat El. Red Button

Red Button: The Ultimate Line of Defense Against DDoS Attacks Since 2014 – Red Button has been providing organizations with full-service testing, hardening and consulting to optimize their DDoS defenses.

With the most realistic, up-to-date DDoS attack simulations, our experts identify vulnerabilities and offer actionable recommendations for closing the gaps. We assist clients with fortifying their systems and our battle-tested Incident Response team helps mitigate attacks in real time.

Red Button is an authorized DDoS test partner of both AWS and Microsoft Azure, and the developer of the industry’s DDoS Resiliency Score (DRS) standard.

CYBER Insights – Helping Keep Small Business CYBERSafe!

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