Getting away from harmful old mindset

Mike Smith of Sungard Availability Services has been keeping track of how attacks target businesses

Mike Smith, a solutions architect at Sungard Availability Services

The problem of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks isn’t going away any time soon. Instead, the rate of it is set to increase. With roughly 7,000 DDoS attacks being launched by malicious actors every day, it’s a significant way of disrupting a business.

Mike Smith, a solutions architect at Sungard Availability Services, was responsible for building the company’s DDoS services from the grounds up six years ago. He has kept track of ...