Anti Ddos is an acronym for the Denial of Service attacks that plague the Internet. The acronym is derived from the attack, which is the Distributed Denial of Service, or more commonly known as the DoS attack. This attack is most often perpetrated against network servers. The DoS attacks are not very easy to defend against, because the attacker has no specific targets. Because of this, it is often difficult to defend against and the DoS attack can continue to increase until the server buckles and falls.

There are three types of DoS attacks that occur: application layer attacks, client-side attacks, and protocol attacks. Application layer attacks occur on the application layer of the computer-network interface and are typically caused by a badly written application or a virus. These applications and viruses can send out invalid packets of data to spoof the destination, which then sends the spoofed data to legitimate users and servers. Users and servers that respond to these invalid packet of data may believe that they are receiving an actual connection, when in fact, the connection is a DoS attack. A simple example of an application layer attack might be a virus that sends out an email to a hundred addresses, but then changes the email to one hundred different addresses.

Applications layer attacks are the most common form of DoS and application layer attacks because they involve a lack of knowledge on the part of the victim or provider. For this reason, many businesses have begun to require that all employees who access company systems have the proper anti-DDos software installed on their workstations and servers. Imperva provides business continuity and disaster recovery solutions that include application layer DoS protection.

One of the problems with application-layer DoS attacks is that the victims often do not know that they are being attacked. Some of the popular application layer attacks include JBoss, Squidoo and Slam Dunk, which all use methods that spoof information to direct Internet traffic in directions not intended. Another major problem with application layer attacks is that they can be used to conduct multiple attacks against a single system. This makes it very difficult for an Internet Service Provider to reduce bad traffic and DDoS attacks have in recent years surpassed the number of traditional routers.

Businesses that are using cloud-based services should be especially careful about ensuring business continuity and disaster recovery. Business continuity and disaster recovery mean having multiple backup systems in place, including systems that are directly attached to the company's servers. With an imperial VoIP service, you can ensure that you can continue to make use of your existing servers and networks even during DoS attacks. While traditional voice over IP solutions have been traditionally thought of as more suitable for small and medium sized businesses, it has recently been proven that it is possible for even large companies to adapt to a cloud-based voice solution. Impaired scalability and increased bandwidth are just some of the reasons that a cloud based phone solution has become so popular with businesses.

Implementing DoS attacks against a company network can have a significant impact on the volume of legitimate users who use the system. Since most applications will throttle calls when a user attempts to utilize them for the first time or after a certain period of time, it will be important to monitor the usage patterns of your average user to determine whether or not you need to take measures to block or otherwise limit these types of attacks. While there are techniques that can be implemented to limit or stop DDoS attacks on a hosted VoIP platform, many companies prefer to use prevention techniques rather than getting caught with a solution that has already been compromised. Since most cloud-based solutions and DDoS protection solutions will automatically put a halt to malicious attacks, it will be necessary for your company to provide you with measures that will prevent DDoS attacks from occurring.

To prevent DoS attacks against your hosted VoIP solution, you will need to implement anti DDOS techniques into your overall security strategy. The most common way that a DDoS attack occurs is by sending large volumes of bad traffic to your service provider in order to overload their servers and make them respond with a failure message. The problem that usually arises from this scenario is that users on the server do not realize that the server is crashing because of too much bad traffic.

Many providers have automated solutions that will prevent DoS attacks by blocking unwanted traffic before it has the chance to escalate into a full-blown DDoS attack. For small businesses or personal web pages, it may be difficult for you to find an anti-DDOS hosting provider but there are solutions available on the Imperva Cloud. As a leading provider of DDoS protection, we have found that the fastest and most reliable way to prevent these types of attacks is to pre-emptive block any potential attack using our industry-leading threat intelligence technology. We have integrated our proprietary threat intelligence solutions with several different server control products including our popular Imperva Cloud Software to provide our customers with the latest in threat management and DDoS protection technology.