A DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt legitimate traffic to a server by overwhelming the target with a flood of requests from geographically dispersed systems. Now, let's first understand how a denial-of-service (DoS) attack works. During DoS attacks, the attackers bombard the target machine with a massive amount of requests that lead to the exhaustion of server resources and, as a result, it fails requests from legitimate users. In a DoS attack, a threat actor uses a single machine to exhaust the target server; however, a DDoS attack is much more powerful as millions of machines can be used to exhaust a target server.
More and more organizations are moving to the cloud with massive infrastructure to fulfill their immersive customer demands. Organizations either build their own heavy server infrastructure, or they move to cloud providers to host their servers. Today, attackers prefer the DDoS attack method to disrupt target services as they can...