Your company’s website is like the store window of a brick-and-mortar shop. Its design is crucial for your customers and partners, and you need to keep it safe. Yet globally, around 30,000 websites are hacked daily. Here's a guide to common types of attacks.

1) DoS and DDoS attack

A denial of service (DoS) is a form of cyberattack in which the perpetrators seek to disrupt or crash a website, network, or other online service by overloading it with a high volume of fake or junk requests. Cybercriminals typically use networks of distributed, compromised devices to disrupt systems by targeting one or more of the components necessary to establish a connection to a network resource, making the DoS attack a DDoS – as in distributed denial of service – attack. The most common types are: