It’s been about four and a half years since we started filtering traffic for web hosts with our IPS/IDS protection. Advanced threat detection and elimination system. The original filtering rules can no longer be compared to today’s. They are far more benevolent, yet more effective than ever before.
In the second half of 2015, we launched our IPS/IDS (Intrusion Prevention Systems and Intrusion Detection Systems). At first it was only tasked with monitoring traffic on our servers (it was an IDS). We were surprised by the huge number of attacks. For example, the number of attacks on the WordPress login page (wp-login.php) averaged 8 per second. Early last week (15.4.2019) we compared it and it was already a whopping 63 attempts per second. And we can only detect activity on HTTP so far. However, more than half of our services already use HTTPS.
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Yesterday evening, after a long time, a DDoS attack appeared on our internal common communication and drew everyone’s attention. Some of them solved the problem, others kept an eye on the situation to know what to write to customers…
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