From the perspective of information technology training and consultancy, I believe there are also some hidden costs we should be aware of. While much training can be—and is—delivered to an outstanding level through self-managed online learning, there are some obvious limitations. We all learn differently, yet with e-learning everyone gets an identical experience.

F5’s SOAS analysis revealed that finanial services organizations stand out as the leaders in digital expansion, with a focus on business process automation, orchestration, and the creation of more seamless digital experiences.

The most obvious motivation is financial gain, using the threat of a DDoS attack to hold them to ransom. Other potential motivations could include attacks on behalf of competitors, threat actors looking to use a DDoS attack as a diversion. The good news is that there are several ways to shore up your defenses. Increasingly, this involves stopping attacks from reaching the enterprise network by leveraging cloud-based managed services.

The new offerings also bolster F5’s position in combining multi-cloud application security and delivery with bot mitigation and anti-fraud capabilities to guard organizations and individuals from sophisticated threats.

The average spill size also declined, falling from 63 million records in 2016 to 17 million last year. Meanwhile, the 2020 median spill size (2 million records) represented a 234% increase over 2019 and was the highest since 2016 (2,75 million).