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Global Communication Service Providers: Market Growth Fuels Security Investments

As the world experiences uncertainty stemming from economic, social, and geopolitical disruption, digital connectivity has never been more important to address inequality, support communities and drive global business recovery. This survey interviewed 2,750 communication service provider IT professionals. Respondents come from a broad range of provider types, data center/co-location, service providers and fixed wireless access providers.

Communication Service Providers Expect Strong Demand

2023 will be a year of growth within the communication service provider (CSP) market according to new data from A10 Networks’ latest research. Its biannual Global Communication Service Provider Insights report was undertaken to understand the priorities, expectations, and perspectives of senior IT professionals in CSPs across the globe by interviewing 2,750 senior IT professionals in a variety of roles across 21 countries.

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A10 Next-Gen WAF, powered by Fastly, leverages advanced technology to protect web applications from complex modern threats while minimizing false positives and ensuring availability. See how our integrated Next-Gen WAF, enabled on Thunder ADC, effectively blocks attacks while remaining user-friendly. Get insights into its visibility, DevOps, security tool integrations, and analytics features for advanced web application protection.

Infrastructure Attacks vs. Application Attacks

An infrastructure attack aims to exploit vulnerabilities in the network layer or transport layer. These attacks are called DDoS attacks and include SYN floods, Ping of Death, and UDP floods. Infrastructure attacks can be broken down into two subcategories: volumetric attacks and protocol attacks. Volumetric attacks focus on inundating a server with false requests to overload its bandwidth, while protocol attacks target specific protocols to crash a system.

What is a data breach?

Data breaches can take many forms, from an unintentional release of information by an unaware employee, to a cyber criminal using stolen login credentials to access sensitive data to a ransomware attack that encrypts a company's confidential information. The types of data that can be involved also vary; it can be personal health information, such as medical records; personally identifiable information like driver's license numbers, financial information, such as credit card numbers; and trade secrets and intellectual property like product designs.

AWS hit by Largest Reported DDoS Attack of 2.3 Tbps

A significant milestone occurred with the reported largest DDoS attack on Amazon Web Services (AWS) reaching 2.3 terabits per second. This is a substantial increase of 70% from the previous record holder, the Memcached-based GitHub DDoS attack in 2018, which measured 1.35 terabits per second. Over the years, these attention-grabbing performance gains in DDoS attacks have been rising consistently, with major high-profile attacks happening every two years.