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GUEST OPINION: Malware perils lurk in all directions with DDoS attacks high on the danger list. According to a recent company report, the number of DDoS attacks increased by 37% while DDoS attack volumes increased 26% between 2020 and 2021. In fact, early this year, Microsoft disclosed the largest DDoS attack ever recorded at 3.47Tbps.

According to security vendor Radware's 2021-2022 Global Threat Analysis Report, the number of malicious web application requests climbed 88% – more than double the year-on-year growth rate in distributed denial-of-service attacks, which rose 37%.