How Whitbread Maintains Availability – Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service

While Distributed Denial of Service Attacks (DDoS) attacks are one of the oldest types of threats against websites, they are constantly evolving, making it harder to defend against them. Today, attackers use large armies of automated "bots" to create DDoS attacks on a very large scale. According to Ponemon Institute's recent report on credential stuffing* it's estimated that more than 30% of bot attacks go undetected and an average successful attack can cost upwards of $6M. Retailers are a key target of such attacks with the cost of being offline for even a few hours huge in terms of both lost revenue and also brand reputation. In this webinar, Jay Coley, Senior Director - Security Planning and Strategy, Akamai Technologies will be interviewing Paul Draper, Solutions Architect, Whitbread to learn what security strategies Whitbread implement to ensure that they are always available. In this webinar you’ll learn: -What type of attacks Whitbread see on their platform -How Whitbread block such attacks -Lessons learnt and tops tips from system integrations -Whitbread’s plans for the future to ensure they remain 100% available *The Cost of Credential Stuffing, Ponemon Institute Research Report, October 2017