Denial of Service attacks (DoS) or Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are not something many of our clients have to worry about directly. However our clients are often impacted when services they rely on come under attack.
OpenAI confirms DDoS attacks behind ongoing ChatGPT outages (bleepingcomputer.com)
This attack probably means many people are having to produce their own content again!
When Microsoft gets hit, that is often when our clients feel it. Fortunately Microsoft is big enough that they can mitigate the impact, even if they cannot eliminate it and oflline mode does come in useful during those periods. This is where your incident responce and business continuity planning comes in. You do have those plans written down, don’t you?
Clive Catton MSc (Cyber Security) – by-line and other articles
Further Reading
Not sure what a DoS or DDoS attack is – here is Wikipedia’s explanation:
