Yesterday, cybersecurity supplier Radware, introduced that Ukraine’s State Service of Particular Communications and Data Protection (SSSCIP) is utilizing Radware’s Cloud DDoS Protection and Cloud Internet Utility Firewall (WAF) service to shield itself amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine struggle. 

Ukraine’s SSSCIP is chargeable for defending Ukraine’s state info assets, and can use Radware’s providers to shield the nation towards zero-day and recognized DDoS and software assaults. 

“It’s our prime precedence to shield the IT infrastructure in Ukraine,” mentioned Victor Zhora, the deputy chief of Ukraine’s SSSCIP. “Radware has helped us protect our networks, shield our functions, and bolster the resilience of our IT infrastructure.” 

This partnership highlights that DDoS and application-level assaults stay certainly one of the most substantial threats dealing with trendy organizations, not simply in the context of the cyber struggle between Russia and the Ukraine, however extra broadly as a part of the cyber felony group. 

Defending the cloud from cyber struggle 

The announcement of the partnership comes as Ukraine has been focused by a excessive quantity of cyber assaults since the begin of the Russia-Ukraine struggle, which started with a collection of distributed denial of service (DDoS) assaults attributed to Russian-state sponsored risk actors. 

The SSSCIP is utilizing Radware’s providers in an try to improve its resilience towards some of these superior assaults that focus on Ukraine’s cloud providers. 

“By utilizing the proper degree of protection, it’s attainable to defend towards very superior, excessive quantity assaults – whether or not they originate from hacker teams or nation state actors,” mentioned Radware’s Chief Enterprise Officer, Yoav Gazelle. 

When it comes to defending towards superior assaults, Gazelle highlights that protection options should transcend conventional rate-limiting and negative-based safety fashions, and as an alternative use machine studying to mechanically detect and mitigate complicated assaults in real-time. 

“That is particularly vital immediately with the expertise scarcity in cyber safety that organizations worldwide are dealing with. Organizations can’t depend on options that require guide configuration and signature creation and should deploy automated options,” Gazelle mentioned.

When mitigating DDoS assaults, Gazelle recommends that enterprises deploying protection options search for suppliers that may mitigate each volumetric assaults and low quantity micro floods, burst assaults, and encrypted assaults, which can be designed to bypass their defenses. 

The DDoS and software protection market 

When contemplating that the common value of a DDoS assault in the US is $218,000 and 60% of organizations report they don’t have any to average confidence of their skill to handle assault floor threat, it’s unsurprising that extra organizations are starting to put money into DDoS and software protection options. 

In the present day, each the DDoS protection and software safety markets are in a state of progress, with the former anticipated to develop from $3.Three billion in 2021 to $6.7 billion by 2026, and the latter anticipated to improve from $6.2 billion in 2020 to $13.2 billion by 2025. 

Radware is certainly one of the key suppliers benefitting from this progress, elevating $286.5 million in income final yr, nevertheless it isn’t the just one. It’s additionally competing towards Cloudflare, which presents a DDoS protection service that secures web sites and functions. 

Cloudflare has been acknowledged as a chief in the 2019 ‘IDC MarketScape: Worldwide DDoS Prevention Options’ and 2017 ‘Forrester Wave: DDoS Mitigation Options.” It additionally just lately reported elevating $656.four billion in whole income in 2021. 

Likewise, Akamai is a key participant in the area as nicely, providing DDoS protection as a part of its safety and edge computing answer, Akamai Edge Safety, which presents 200+ tbps of additional community capability to assist organizations improve their resilience towards DoS assaults.

At the begin of this yr, Akamai introduced it had raised $3.5 billion in income throughout 2021. 

Though Gazelle says that Radware’s use of distinctive algorithms and machine studying strategies differentiate it from different suppliers in the market, by enabling customers to proceed to use regular software providers with out degradation, even throughout critical assaults.