Google Cloud Armor now also includes more advanced security features to defend against DDoS attacks on your network, including constant monitoring and mitigation.

Google Cloud customers can now choose between standard security and advanced network security. The second option includes more defensive weapons against DDoS attacks. DDoS or Distributed Denial of Service is a common attack vector where cyber criminals unleash a network of bots on your network. The idea is to overload the servers with requests until they fail and your website goes down.

Google puts Cloud Armor Advanced Network DDoS protection at the forefront of the network. Those who subscribe to the broader security can rely on continuous monitoring of suspicious signals. Among other things, Google Cloud Armor looks at the status of your workloads and incoming traffic.

If there are indications of suspicious volumes, risk mitigation is initiated. This should nip a DDoS attack in the bud. Customers can then view the details of the attack attempt from start to finish via telemetry. Cloud Armor performs an attack status update every five minutes to provide detailed data.

DDoS attacks are getting bigger and bigger

Organizations can use any help they can think of to combat DDoS attacks. This type of attack is becoming more common and growing in scale. For a while, Google held the record for stopping the largest DDoS attack, but that was recently “broken” by Cloudflare.

In addition to the proportions, the motives of the perpetrators have also changed. Where DDoS attacks used to be initiated for ideological motives, they are now also a means to pressure companies to pay ransoms. Sixteen percent of DDoS attacks are for money, according to Cloudflare research.

To get the extra protection, you must first sign up for Managed Protection Plus. This blog describes step by step how to configure and use advanced network security.