Wondering why anyone would attack you or your clients’ WordPress site? Most attacks are perpetrated to install a script on your server, which would allow a hacker to send out high volumes of spam email. It is also possible they are seeking confidential information, or perhaps looking to leak sensitive information to the public. The […]
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When your Clients have a lot riding on their WordPress site, Carbon60 is the Choice
Built for scale, highly secure, more affordable Are you building the next large media website? Does your client project require advance performance and security? Are you launching a WordPress site that needs to deliver under extreme loads and cannot go down? If this sounds like your next WordPress project (or you are an enterprise yourself […]
The Truth About DDoS Attacks: Part 2
In part 1 of this article, we examined the continued increases in the frequency and magnitude of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, the growing potential for collateral damage at the datacenter and regional network level, and the trend toward multi-vector DDoS attacks. We will now explore how a “defence-in-depth” approach is necessary to protect your business-critical […]
The Truth about DDoS Attacks: Part 1
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a plague on the Internet. In the last 5 years, the magnitude of DDoS attacks has steadily increased to the point that in a recent NYT interview Matthew Prince from CloudFlare compared DDoS attacks to “nuclear bombs” in their capacity to cause wide-spread damage. While, as the CEO […]
Automated Anomaly Detection and Optimization in Cloud Computing
There is an evolution happening in how organizations of all shapes and sizes consume business services. More and more, business services are being consumed from either public or private “clouds”. But as Kirill Sheynkman points out in “21 Experts Define Cloud Computing”: “The ‘cloud’ model initially has focused on making the hardware layer consumable as […]