Is Retail Ready for the 2016 Holiday Season? When Toasters Attack! standard
The holiday season is upon us, and the biggest days for retailers to make their 2016 plan commitments is coming. The popularity of online shopping always seems to claim a few retailers every year who did not plan capacity accordingly. We’ve seen both Black Friday and Cyber Monday shut down websites in the past, and even though elastic computing has grown in popularity, we can expect one or two that under planned their capacity for this year. But this post is not about poor IT capacity planning—it’s about the latest string of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks that has claimed a number of prominent web properties over the last month. Internet of Things (IoT) devices, when improperly designed, can ...
Continue Reading