IoT botnets have turned poorly secured connected devices into practical DDoS weapons. Cameras, routers and digital video recorders can be infected without the owner noticing, then used to send attack traffic at websites, networks and online services.
More connected devices mean more potential attack sources. More attack sources mean higher risk for businesses that depend on uptime. That makes fast, automated DDoS protection more relevant.
These attacks are hard to stop because they come from many places at once. Blocking one device or one network is not enough. A large botnet can generate traffic from thousands or millions of devices, making the attack harder to separate from normal internet activity.
The Mirai botnet showed how serious this risk could become by exploiting devices with weak or default passwords. The same basic weakness still matters today. Many IoT devices are installed and then forgotten, with limited security updates or monitoring. That creates a lasting pool of devices that attackers can use.
The challenge is also becoming more technical. Botnets can create large traffic floods, high packet-rate attacks and multi-vector campaigns that shift methods quickly. This increases the need for protection that works in real time, rather than after disruption has already started.
Corero is positioned around that requirement. Its DDoS protection is designed to detect attack behaviour and block malicious traffic automatically, with sub-second inline mitigation. That is important because many attacks are now short, fast and designed to cause damage before slower systems respond.
Corero Network Security plc (LON:CNS) is a global provider of automated business continuity and network security solutions.
