At first glance, protecting and defending against attacks have similar meanings. It is not wrong that the two are essentially similar, but in certain contexts, especially in cyber security, there are clear differences between the meanings of the two words.

In fact, defending against attacks means being reactive, while protecting means being proactive.

Why are we discussing vocabulary here? Because this fundamental difference will have a significant impact when companies/organizations implement it into applications, resulting in data that can be accessed by programs.

Protecting and defending applications from attacks is becoming increasingly important in today's cybersecurity landscape, as more and more criminals attempt to conduct multi-vector attacks using two or more attack methods simultaneously.

For example, cybercriminals simultaneously launch volumetric-based attacks or attacks designed to overwhelm networks, routers and firewalls in IT systems, as well as application-focused attacks designed to overload server and application resources.

This attack will have a direct impact on the company and its users/customers. This is because attacks make applications inaccessible, decreasing their performance and increasing their vulnerability to further attacks.

This hampers the enterprise/company work process. What's worse, customers will also feel the impact. Insufficient application performance disrupts access to services and increases security vulnerabilities, ultimately disrupting user experience and decreasing customer satisfaction when using applications to access services.

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The aim of both attacks is to obstruct, which is why it is called a denial of service attack, by overloading the network and servers so that access to services is hampered.

As time goes by, enterprises should defend themselves from (reactive) attacks while protecting themselves more proactively, as the sophistication and volume of attacks increases.

According to the 2016 State of Application Delivery report by F5 Networks, which surveyed more than 3,000 F5 customers worldwide, security-related application services continue to dominate the top five most implemented application services.

However, given the current security landscape, businesses should also look for proactive protection in the cloud. The scalability of cloud-based protection allows it to withstand the onslaught of attacks launched by cybercriminals and keep them away from data and applications stored well on-premises.

Not DDoS Defense (defense), but cloud based DDoS Protection (protection) services have emerged as a result of the concept mentioned above. In fact, cloud-based DDoS protection can prevent, repel, and even evict criminals from valuable company assets, such as applications and data.

Moreover, nowadays cyber security is closely related to business, in terms of the level of trust and image in the eyes of the public, overall business processes and also business continuity. Better defend and protect yourself from cyber attacks.

Additionally, cybersecurity is closely connected to today's business in terms of public perception of trust, overall business processes, and business continuity. Therefore, it is better to defend and protect against cyber attacks.

It only takes an average of 82 seconds for an employee to take the bait and fall victim to malicious code sent by an attacker, which can cause serious harm to your business. At this point, you will of course react to the attack that has occurred.

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