Security News > 2023 > August > How to accelerate and access DDoS protection services using GRE

As we entered 2023, the cybersecurity landscape witnessed an increase in sophisticated, high-volume attacks, according to Gcore.
The maximum attack power rose from 600 to 800 Gbps. UDP flood attacks were most common and amounted to 52% of total attacks, while SYN flood accounted for 24%. In third place was TCP flood.
The most-attacked business sectors are gaming, telecom, and finance.
The longest attack duration in Q2/Q3 was seven days, 16 hours, and 22 minutes.
In this Help Net Security video, Andrey Slastenov, Head of Web Security at Gcore, discusses how a GRE tunnel can protect servers from DDoS attacks.
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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/08/11/ddos-protection-services-gre-video/