Executive Summary The internet is a system of systems. There is no central organizing committee that governs how it is constructed and operated. There are norms and best practices, as well as agreed-upon standards of operation such as what an Internet Protocol (IP) datagram looks like and how it should be interpreted...

Executive Summary July’s botnet-driven distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) activity remained elevated, with pressure spikes around the U.S. holiday period and continued automation from commodity botnets. NETSCOUT observed more than 20,000 total DDoS attack events (more than 600/day), with a sharp July 3 surge to more...