What is DDOS Server?
After a DDoS attack has ended, you will have a lot of work to do. Continue reading to learn what actions to take in the event of a DDoS attack, and how to recover.
How to respond to a DDoS Server Attack
Are you seeing an unusual increase in traffic? Is your website experiencing sudden downtime? These signs can be detected and treated as follows:
Inform your web hosting provider
Your site hosting provider may have already seen the DDoS attack. Notifying them of the attack is crucial, even if they have already been notified. Sometimes, your provider can block malicious traffic. Ask your provider for a new IP address.
Automate Your Communications Department
Your clients’ communications desks will be overwhelmed if there is a DDoS attack. Clients will start calling and sending emails. They may also complain about social media. Your company will be able to manage this sudden rise in client communications by automating them. You may also want to create a status webpage that informs users if your website is up and running.
You might consider setting up a DDoS communication system that alerts and responds automatically to customers. Your clients should be notified by the system that your service is not available at this time. Your team will work diligently to restore your website as soon as possible. You can connect them to the status page so they can keep track of the latest updates.
You can immediately erase your logs
Your unified threat management devices, servers, and firewalls will attempt to log many DDoS requests when there is a DDoS attack. These platforms could be affected by the amount of malicious activity. If one fails, it can trigger a cover-up across all linked systems. If you aren’t benefitting from your logs, it is a good idea to delete them as soon as possible after you notice the DDoS attack.
How to recover from a DDoS Server Attack
These tasks will help you make your recovery process easy.
Restore your Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Connections
Your connections to your peering partners, transit providers, and peers will be affected by a DDoS attack. BGP uses keepalive messages for peering partners to notify them that a website has been operational. Although configurations can differ between providers these messages are sent after every minute.
Your providers and partners could decline your website if you fail to send three messages at once. This can happen in under one and a quarter minutes. Your provider will take down your website and remove any routes. Your provider’s setup will determine your recovery. After an attack has ended, you must release your network again.
Peering partners may take longer, but ISP transit providers will often respond quickly to your request. This scenario increases the cost of DDoS attacks as you will be using high-priced routes. After you have restored your site, the situation could last up to an hour.
Unblock Your ISP
Customers who are subject to a DDoS server attack may be disconnected by internet service providers. This could result in customers losing bandwidth. DDoS attacks on websites can cost ISPs their business. The loss they suffer is often not worth the price. Your provider will need to be able to verify that the DDoS attack has not occurred again. Only then can they allow you to rejoin their network.
Analyze and restart Firewalls
You may experience an unexpected increase in traffic when you are trying to restore your devices online. This could lead to a secondary attack, where connections attempt to repair themselves. It is important to fully understand your application and to have a plan to ensure orderly restoration.
Application Recovery
All your clients will attempt to connect once your network has been restored online. They may have tried to connect before the site crashed. The pent-up demand may cause an application layer DDoS attack with multiple sessions reconnecting.
You can prevent this from happening by creating a strategy to facilitate the gradual reconnecting of customers. This can be achieved in a variety of ways depending on the business. You might route traffic to different data centers based on IP address range or geography. You can also control the number of connections you can set up.
Review Your DDoS Protection Strategy
IT departments need to review their DDoS protection strategy every so often, regardless of whether there is a DDoS attack. It is important to evaluate third-party solutions. To evaluate the impact of an attack, IT departments should work with other departments. This data helps companies find solutions to possible future attacks.