As the expert explained, hardware and software devices will help prevent massive attacks on Internet resources and applications.
Such systems are able to analyze user requests and prevent overload on hosting, the interlocutor of RT emphasized.
“If this protection tool decides that the request is an attempted DDoS attack, then it simply does not let it through and thereby reduces the load on the service,” Bederov added.
In addition, the specialist recalled that the epidemic of encryption viruses in the form of RaaS continues around the world.
“RaaS is an ecosystem that involves the use of encryption and extortion at this expense.
Encryption is a tool that was originally built into any operating system as a protective mechanism when all computer networks were military.
In the information field, this is called encryption viruses, ”he added.
To protect against such a virus, according to the expert, any downloaded content must "be tested in a sandbox that would look at the activity of a particular software or file inside a protected circuit."
“This should be some kind of disk space, downloading a malicious file to which will not lead to a loss of system performance,” he concluded.
Previously, Bederov told how to recognize phishing links.