Unanticipated cyber threats can rapidly exhaust cyber security budgets and derail carefully planned strategies. Among these challenges, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks stand out as a prime example of how unexpected risks can disrupt even the most secure systems. DDoS Attack at SJD-Bank (fictitious) It was a routine evening at SJD-Bank’s security operations center (SOC), where the team was wrapping up case analyses before the shift handover. Suddenly, a major incident alert broke the calm. An emergency bridge call was initiated to investigate a sharp spike in activity that was impacting the bank’s perimeter firewalls. The incident was also […]
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