Written in collaboration with Amir DahanIntroductionCybercriminals demonstrate increasingly sophisticated tactics using DDoS attacks as multi-purpose tool. While DDoS attacks are commonly used to take down critical systems, applications, and infrastructure, they also serve adversaries for extortion and political or ideological motives. The crown jewel is using DDoS attacks as a smokescreen to conceal data breaches while the attention is directed to the attack. By overwhelming the targeted website or application with a large amount of traffic, the attackers can exploit vulnerabilities and steal sensitive information.Customers use Azure DDoS Protection services to safeguard their applications hosted in Azure against DDoS attacks. Microsoft Sentinel and Azure DDoS Protection services offer rich integration to easily ingest DDoS Protection logs and view and analyze this data in Sentinel to create custom alerts and improve their security posture, investigation, and response processes. Speci...
