Increase in DDoS-attacks on small ISPs

DDoS-attacks are more common than ever before. In the first half year of 2021, NaWas reported the same number of attacks as over the whole of 2020. Moreover, attacks become more intense. The fiercest attack was 300 GBps (in 2020 this was still 200 GBps). The number of new NaWas members and help questions rose with 12% in the first half year of 2021.

“In the third quarter of this year we saw a wave of attacks on small Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with limited DDoS mitigation capabilities. The NaWas had a busy time connecting and supporting all these new companies. We’re happy to say that mitigation in almost all of the cases was a success and attacks were repelled,” says Frank Dupker, European Network Manager at NaWas.

Working with partners is essential when you are mitigating DDoS-attacks. “Nawas has a strong partnership with the AMS-IX team. By quickly activating and provisioning ports, they enable customers to connect to our private VLAN and protect themselves against DDoS-attacks. We managed to help a lot of companies in this manner,” says Dupker.