33 per cent of organisations have faced a DDoS attack this year compared to 17 per cent in 2016. DDoS attacks are becoming more sophisticated, deceptive and frequent. The driving motivation to use it now is the theft of corporate data. The only proper defence against todays sophisticated attacks is to use an automatic, real-time DDoS mitigation system, which can monitor and mitigate DDoS traffic automatically to eliminate service outages and allow security personnel to focus on uncovering any subsequent malicious activity such as data breaches.”]
Source: https://informationsecuritybuzz.com/articles/ddos-attacks-double-corporate-data-becomes-new-target/