Netflix Helps Identify APIs at Risk of Application DDoS Attacks
Security Week | August 01, 2017
Netflix has published tools and information to help defenders identify systems that could be leveraged by malicious actors for damaging application layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Akamai’s State of the Internet report for the first quarter of 2017 shows that application layer attacks accounted for less than one percent of DDoS attacks. However, security engineers at Netflix warn that they can pose a serious threat to organizations relying on a microservice architecture.