Data-Protection Efforts Must Prepare for New Forms of Attack

Organizations already have plenty to worry about in terms of data protection, but a new type of cyberattack could prove much more damaging and harder to remediate. A destruction of service (DeOS) attack has the potential to destroy the data backups and safety nets organizations rely on to restore their systems and data following an attack, according to Cisco. DeOS attacks are a more dangerous version of distributed denial of service (DDoS), which employs botnets to overload the target organization's servers with traffic until they can no longer handle the extra load. DDoS attacks last hours or days, after which a company can resume normal operations. This is one of the many new security risks that are emerging with the Internet of Things (IoT).