06/11/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 06/11/2025 09:48
Service providers and large enterprises are "all in" when it comes to meeting the soaring demands for AI-driven applications, cloud services, and real-time connectivity. But the pace of transformation is straining existing infrastructure. That's why multi-data center operations have raised the bar for operational resilience - persistently ensuring uptime, redundancy, and performance even amid a volatile risk landscape.
Operators face mounting external risks that are largely beyond their control - including power grid constraints, natural disasters, network provider failures, and third-party software issues. New research from Uptime Institute finds that operators' ongoing investments in availability are paying off. Overall outage frequency and the general level of reported severity continue to decline, with 53% reporting an outage in the last three years, compared to 55% in the prior report. However, cyber incidents are rising and often have severe, lasting impacts.
One of the top cyber threats to service providers and enterprises are DDoS attacks. Our 2025 Threat Intelligence Reportfinds that on average organizations experienced 11 DDoS attacks per day in 2024, which is an all-time high. One of the areas that gets lost in multi-data center operational resilience is DDoS protection resilience, even though it is essential to keeping service providers and enterprises up and running.
The reality is that traditional DDoS protection hasn't kept pace with best practices for resiliency. Outdated high-availability (HA) models focus on local failover, only initiating action after a failure is detected, and often requiring human intervention. Until teams can manually activate mitigation, organizations are exposed to downtime and security gaps that enable DDoS attacks to spread across sites and wreak more havoc. In addition to lost revenue and SLA penalties, the reputational harm from such events can sever customer trust, making retention and future business growth even harder to achieve.
Corero's DDoS Protection with Multi-Site Resiliency is designed with the footprint of modern infrastructure in mind. Whether an outage is caused by a power failure, fiber cut, or catastrophic event, Multi-Site Resiliency means security visibility and enforcement is site-wide and always on.
Multi-site resiliency gives service providers and large enterprises real-time, seamless DDoS protection across multiple locations without missing a beat. You can keep your services online even during a DDoS attack.
When serious and severe data center outages happen, the costs are significant. More than half (54%) of the respondents to Uptime Institute's 2025 Annual Surveysay their most recent significant, serious or severe outage cost more than $100,000, with 20% saying that their most recent outage cost more than $1 million.
In the case of DDoS attacks, costs can soar even higher. Some DDoS attacks are being used as smokescreens while threat actors move laterally in search of high-value digital assets and exfiltrate data. DDoS attacks are also being used in tandem with ransomware attacks, threatening repeat or sustained attacks if demands are not met. Beyond direct financial losses, downtime can escalate as organizations grapple with potential ransomware payments and the intricate challenges of decrypting compromised data and restoring normal operations.
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