A10 Networks reports that companies suffer an average of 15 DDoS attacks a year. Average attacks cause 17 hours of effective downtime, including slowdowns, denied customer access or crashes. More than half of the surveyed organisations said they planned to increase their DDoS prevention budgets in the next six months. The average peak bandwidth of attacks was a staggering 30-40 gigabits per second (Gbps), 59 per cent of organisations have experienced an attack over 40 Gbps. A majority of respondents expect sophisticated multi-vector attacks to pose the most dangerous type of DDoS attack in the future.”]