On the occasion of a seminar on cyber security around the theme “Understanding and anticipating DDoS attacks”. The leader in cybersecurity solutions, the telephone operator Gabon Telecom officially launched on June 19 the technological solution called APS, to protect the 400,000 IP addresses of its customers.
Recently, Gabon had been the subject of credit card fraud a year ago and new protection measures were put in place. But much remains to be done. There are daily violations of the right of the press, piracy, fraud and counterfeiting or even infringements of content (copyright, privacy, minors …).
Gabon Telecom suffers 743 attacks per month …
According to Arbor Networks expert Jonathan Bourgain, DDoS attacks are launched by cyber criminals from multiple devices simultaneously, in a distributed manner.
It also considers that Gabon Telecom is the victim of 743 attacks per month, according to statistics. “There are three types of major denial of service attacks. The volumetric attacks to which the objective will be to saturate the links of the operators at the customers. The report will be a slowdown or a complete break connection. The second is going to be the state saturation, so of all firewall security equipment, IPS. And, finally, we have a third type of attack that targets the application layer. The goal is to target a specific resource. This can be a website or DNS servers that will impact the entire infrastructure of a client, “said the expert.
