DDoS Attack definition

DDoS Attack means distributed denial-of-service attack.

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DDoS Attack means a denial of service attack, which is an attack on a computer system or network that causes a loss of service to users, typically the loss of network connectivity and services consuming the Bandwidth of the HSCN Connectivity Services or otherwise overloading the resources of the HSCN Connectivity Services;

DDoS Attack means a distributed Denial of Service Attack directed towards your IP addresses connected to StarHub IP Backbone that, in our reasonable judgment, cause us to believe that your network may be compromised by being inundated with nefarious or bogus data traffic, thereby denying service to your systems connected to StarHub IP Backbone.

Examples of DDoS Attack in a sentence

• The DDoS Protection Service and associated countermeasures are configured to reduce disruption of Customer’s legitimate traffic, but Customer may experience slower Internet traffic speed during a DDoS Attack.

• The Time-To-Diversion-Initiation for a Manual Diversion will commence once Provider is notified by the Customer about a Volumetric DDoS Attack and requests the diversion.

• When the DDoS Protection Service detects an anomaly that is symptomatic of a DDoS Attack, the DDoS Protection Service alerts Spectrum.

• Spectrum will remove the countermeasures and redirect Customer’s inbound network traffic to its normal path if Spectrum determines that the DDoS Attack has ended and there is no activity symptomatic of a DDoS Attack for an additional 4 hours.

• Manual Diversion of the Customer’s traffic from the Protected Assets that are under a DDoS Attack to the Provider’s Scrubbing Center(s), will be triggered when the Customer provides Provider with a Volumetric DDoS Attack notification via the Service Portal or support hotline.

• If Spectrum has an existing ticket indicating detection of a DDoS Attack, Spectrum will use commercially reasonable efforts to initiate countermeasures within 15 minutes.

• If Customer designates Reactive mitigation services, Customer understands that Spectrum will not automatically initiate any DDoS countermeasures unless and until a Customer representative calls Spectrum to notify Spectrum that Customer may be experiencing a DDoS Attack.

• The Time- to-Notification will commence following a detection of a Volumetric DDoS Attack on one of the Customer’s Protected Assets.

• Notwithstanding the foregoing, Time-To-Mitigate will re-commence when the DDoS Attack is morphed and/or when the Attack Vectors change and end when the Consistency-Of-Mitigation is reached.

• Manual Diversion of the Customer’s traffic from the Protected Assets that are under a DDoS Attack to the Supplier’s Scrubbing Center(s), will be triggered when the Customer provides Supplier with a Volumetric DDoS Attack notification.

More Definitions of DDoS Attack

DDoS Attack means a Distributed Denial of Service attack that targets the Customer’s Protected Assets.

DDoS Attack means forms of electronic attacks involving repeated requests to a server or application, generating false traffic and rendering it inaccessible to valid users;