In the late 1980’s, SNMP or the Simple Network Management Protocol first emerged as a solution for managing nodes within a network. Since then SNMP data has been used to measure the system performance of devices across countless vendors to help ensure that networks stay up and running.
Today SNMP is one of the most popular networking protocols in the world and snmpwalk has become a go-to method for scanning multiple nodes at once.
A successful DDoS attack not only puts you out of action for a substantial time period but can even cause certain systems to malfunction. Every day you’re out of action piles up costs you would otherwise be without. In this article, we’re going to look at the dangers of DoS vs DDoS to see what the difference is.