![]() It's another thing to see it actually play out how you'd hope," Shaul told WIRED. ![]() "So I would have been certain that we could handle 1.3 Tbps, but at the same time we never had a terabit and a half come in all at once. The attack on the internet infrastructure company resulted in connectivity issues across the United States, taking down many popular websites and online services such as Reddit, Netflix, Spotify, and Twitter.Īccording to Akami VP of web security Josh Shaul, it was able to protect GitHub from the 1.35 TB DDoS attack because the security company designed its capacity to withstand attacks that are up to five times more powerful than the strongest one that was previously recorded. In comparison, the DDoS attack on Dyn in October 2016 peaked at 1.2 TB per second.
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