{"id":44061,"date":"2025-09-04T13:45:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daacdigital.com\/?p=44061"},"modified":"2025-09-04T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T13:45:04","slug":"fighting-a-tsunami-with-a-sandbag-the-on-premise-security-fallacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daacdigital.com\/en\/fighting-a-tsunami-with-a-sandbag-the-on-premise-security-fallacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting a Tsunami with a Sandbag: The On-Premise Security Fallacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cloudflare recently<\/b><\/a> stopped an 11.5 Tbps DDoS attack. Just a few months ago, they mitigated a 7.3 Tbps attack. Let’s be realistic: it’s only a matter of time before we see a headline about a 15 Tbps attack being stopped. The scale of these threats is escalating at a frightening pace.<\/p>\n

This brings us to a crucial point that I find myself emphasizing constantly: your on-premise perimeter security is no longer a viable strategy<\/b>. For your most exposed services\u2014your email gateways and your WAF\/WAAPI solutions\u2014the only effective defense is in the cloud.<\/p>\n

Why? Because trying to fend off a multi-terabit attack from your own data center is a battle you are guaranteed to lose. The attack will saturate your internet connection long before it ever reaches your expensive on-premise appliance. There is no need to have your infrastructure “stressed” by an attack it was never designed to handle.<\/p>\n

The smartest choice is to move the battlefield. Let cloud providers, with their massive, globally distributed networks, absorb the blow. It\u2019s time to stop investing in a defense that can’t possibly work and migrate your perimeter security to where it can actually be effective: the cloud.<\/p>\n

Author:<\/strong> Alexey Shulenkov (Cybersecurity Solutions Consultant, DAAC digital)<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

<\/div><\/div>

For more detailed information on our cybersecurity solutions, please visit our dedicated page: Cybersecurity<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,139,611],"tags":[688,545,687],"class_list":["post-44061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-blog-en","category-blog-cybersecurity","tag-cloudflare","tag-cyber-security","tag-ddos-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daacdigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daacdigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daacdigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daacdigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daacdigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44061"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/daacdigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44070,"href":"https:\/\/daacdigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44061\/revisions\/44070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daacdigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daacdigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daacdigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daacdigital.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}