ICANN weighs in on how to respond to DDoS attacks

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has weighed in on what organisations should do if they find themselves under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

Its senior security technologist Dave Piscitello has prepared a basic primer for what the organisation thinks victims should do if they experience an attack, writing up his recommendations on the organisation’s blog.