According to the DDoS Protection Services report, the majority of respondents have mentioned that content delivery networks (CDNs) and internet service providers (ISPs) are the least effective when it comes to DDoS protection services and especially ineffective against direct-to-origin DDoS attacks and application-layer attacks.
According to the same report, ISPs were ranked least effective for mitigating DDoS attacks by 42 percent of respondents, while 8 percent ranked ISPs as most effective. CDNs were ranked least effective for mitigating DDoS attacks by 58 percent of respondents. No respondents ranked CDNs as most effective. Results show that on-site DDoS mitigation appliances were ranked least effective by 33 percent of respondents. No respondents ranked appliances as most effective.
The report was made by Prolexic a provider of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection services.
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