Cyber accountability
Digital Ruins
Who’s accountable, and why?
A 2.3 Tbps DDoS headline is noise without answers. Here’s what to ask and why it matters.
TL;DR
- Vague outage posts help no one. Customers need facts, scope, and controls—not PR fog.
- Ask vendors for a post-incident brief with timeline, impact, root cause, and corrective actions.
- Accountability is a security control. Treat it like one.
What we know (from public reporting)
A major cloud provider reported a DDoS event with a peak of ~2.3 Tbps. Services were impacted, then restored. Few concrete details followed.
What’s missing (and should be standard)
- Target & blast radius: Which regions, tenants, or services were affected?
- Attack path: Volumetric only, or did app-layer/connector weaknesses contribute?
- Defense posture: What controls absorbed or failed (scrubbing centers, WAF, rate limits)?
- Timeline clarity: When did it start, peak, and stabilize?
- Attribution & legal: Any indicators of threat actors or coordinated activity?
- Lessons learned: What changed after—configs, capacity, playbooks?
Why accountability matters
Silence is a risk. If a provider can’t describe what broke and how it was fixed, you can’t measure residual risk.
- GRC & audit: Evidence for risk registers, SOX/ISO control operation, and vendor due diligence.
- Operations: Clear timelines and root causes reduce repeat incidents and shorten recovery.
- Trust: Transparent post-mortems are table stakes for modern SaaS relationships.
Ask your vendor for thiss
Quick glossary
Bandwidth vs. Throughput: Bandwidth is the maximum data rate; throughput is what actually flows. A “2.3 Tbps attack” describes peak traffic hitting defenses—not nece
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