In the fourth quarter of 2015, distributed denial of service activity reached its highest quarterly level since the Reston, Va.-based cybersecurity firm Verisign began releasing its DDoS Trends Report in the first quarter of 2014, the firm said.

The 2015 report contained observations and insights derived from DDoS attack mitigations enacted on behalf of Verisign DDoS Protection Services customers and Q4 2015 security research from Verisign iDefense Security Intelligence Services.

Verisign reported every organization is at risk.

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Roy Urrico

Roy W. Urrico specializes in articles about financial technology and services for Credit Union Times, as well as ghostwriting, copywriting, and case studies. Also: writer/editor of a semi-annual newsletter for Association for Financial Technology since 1997 and history projects funded by the U.S Interior Department, National Park Service and Warren County (N.Y.).