Chapter 9: Deploying Blockchain-Based DDoS Protection

1. Recent research found a 55% increase in large DDoS attacks of more than 10 Gbps in the first quarter of 2017, compared to the previous quarter. DDoS experts predict that advanced, volumetric attacks will become more common in the near future. A growing use of dark web marketplaces and open source software platforms have caused an increase in DDoS incidences, and a huge number of IoT devices, such as connected refrigerators or other smart devices, have minimal security and could easily be looped into an attack like this. Attackers are using DDoS as a tool to knock things offline that they don't like, and such tools are freely available on the internet.
2. Although there can't be a perfect answer to this, there are several initiatives to stop DDoS attacks. A decentralized platform allows users to rent out their bandwidth, which can then be pooled to allow for substantially greater amounts of data processing, greatly reducing the risk of DDoS success.