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Cloud computing is quickly everywhere and being adapted into most businesses and brands in the world because of it's often more cost-effective and powerful. In addition it is also making its way into the world of web hosting. With this in mind, 53% of organizations host at least half of their infrastructure in the cloud. For this, 52% spend more than $1,2 million per year on public cloud.

Hermes Germany, the leading consumer delivery company, is using Link11’s cloud-native DDoS protection solutions to protect its IT infrastructure and web applications against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.  

Link11, one of the leading IT security providers in Europe fighting cyber-attacks on the basis of a machine learning process forming the subject of a patent application, is preparing for further international expansion and strengthening its management team with the appointment of Rolf Gierhard as Vice President Marketing.

Major cyber-attacks continue to make headlines in the media and companies affected have very little time to react before the media, consumers, regulators law enforcement and financial analysts get involved. The consequences of these attacks can be devastating and range from reputational damage to lost revenue and recovery costs.

The damages caused by cybercrime will raise up to $6 trillion (USD) by 2021, which is more than twice the GDP of the United Kingdom. With this fact in mind, still 28% of organizations admit that they do not have an emergency plan in case of a cyberattack, even if almost 50% of managers estimate that the chances of being hit by a devasting cyberattack are very high. Find out more in the following infographic.

2018 is the year of high volume DDoS attacks. Since the emergence of the new attack vector memcached reflection in February, new bandwidth records have been set. In a webinar, our Link11 security experts explain how to assess the threats.

In the course of Infosecurity Europe 2018, Link11 surveyed more than 200 IT professionals, hosting providers as well as IT solution providers and came to the alarming conclusion that the DDoS threat in the UK is still taken far too lightly.

The Link11 DDoS protection is a core service on the Link11 Cloud Security Platform and fulfils the extensive quality criteria of the BSI.

Cloud services from leading providers including AWS, Microsoft Azure and Alibaba used in 25% of all DDoS attacks in Europe from July 2017 to June 2018

Following the announcement by British Airways that the details of 380,000 payment card details and other personal data had been stolen from its website, Link11 stated that the breach could have been prevented with the use of a correctly-configured web application firewalling (WAF) to protect the website.