‘It’s not if, but when’ is a long-established trope in the world of cybersecurity, warning organizations that no matter how robust their defenses, nor how sophisticated their security processes, they cannot afford to be complacent. In 2020, little has changed – and yet everything has changed. The potential scale and scope of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks is far greater than it ever has been. Attackers can call on massive botnets to launch attacks, thanks to the ongoing rapid growth in cloud usage and expansion of the IoT, which has given more devices and resources which can be exploited. Furthermore, the vulnerabilities that these botnets can target are challenging to protect using standard network security solutions. So what attack types will we see during this year? Here are 5 key trends that I expect to see developing during the coming months. Attacks will reach unprecedented scale According to the Department for Homeland Security, the scale of DDoS att...