Working in the software field, it’s not uncommon for engineers to refer to different “layers.” Perhaps you’re working with protocols at the “networking layer” or evaluating a solution that sits at “Layer 4” or “Layer 7.” Although these concepts are obvious to some, not everyone knows what these layers refer to. To get you up […]
How DevOps Prevents DDoS Attacks
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are some of the most pervasive and difficult attacks to prevent. The attack uses many distributed endpoints and/or systems to flood a web domain, application or service with excessive service requests or application calls. There are limits to the amount of bandwidth or the number of service requests or […]