2017 promises to be the Year of DDoS Attacks. According to a recent study, more than half of all enterprises see in excess of 51 DDoS attacks per month. The size and severity of volumetric attacks are exploding: the largest attack volumes grew by 60 percent. mitigation requires the ability to process a huge number of rules to remove attack traffic from normal traffic at line-rate speeds. The key is to be able to set up massive numbers of rules (for example, to discard all traffic from a certain source IP address) in a short amount of time.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3211399/time-to-get-serious-about-volumetric-ddos-mitigation.html