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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

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50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. DDoS attacks on single networks or websites render them unavailable, but DDoS attacks on DNS resolvers bring down all networks and websites using that DNS resource.

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

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and installed software (operating systems, applications, firmware, etc.). Web browsing security manages internal or local domain name service (DNS), secure web gateways (SWGs), firewall settings, and other techniques, tools, and protocols used to block dangerous or unwanted websites and URLs.