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Seconds count. When it comes to effective DDoS protection solutions make sure you understand the
fine print. While it might be tempting to go with a cheaper DDoS solution, it’s imperative to understand if
the solution is merely mitigating the attack, meaning you’ll still be hit, or protecting against it entirely,
meaning attacks are blocked and it’s business as usual. It’s also best to avoid on-demand solutions,
which can’t react fast enough to completely prevent some degree of downtime. To get the most bang for
the buck, a DDoS protection solution should offer flexible, automatic DDoS protection at full edge
bandwidth, which effectively shrinks the detection-to-mitigation-to-protection timeline from minutes to
seconds.

Finance executives walk a fine line, constantly balancing the need to protect their company’s networks
and systems against the need to balance their budgets. Ensuring that their security teams are empowered
with the necessary resources to fend off cyberattacks makes smart business sense.

About the Author

Phil Richards is the Chief Financial Officer of Corero Network Security. He
joined Corero as CFO in November 2022, bringing over 15 years of finance
and operational expertise to the Group. He is a fellow of the Institute of
Chartered accountants. Phil joined Corero from Kambi Group plc, a
Swedish-listed premium global sportsbook provider, working across the
organization for 6 years as SVP finance to oversee their growth and
international expansion, including moving to Philadelphia to oversee the
setup and delivery of their US facing service. Qualifying as an accountant
with KPMG UK, and having spent one year in the German and two years
in the Swedish respective KPMG organizations, Phil then joined Royal
Dutch Shell as a financial controller where he spent two years prior to joining Kambi Group plc. Phil can
be reached online at [email protected] and at our company website https://www.corero.com/

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