
Darren Anstey
Chief Technology Officer for Security at NETSCOUT; cybersecurity expert focused on network visibility, threat intelligence, and DDoS protection.
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Jun 26, 2026
What NETSCOUT's Threat Intelligence Report Means For Every Security Leader
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Neil C. HughesHOST
And I'm curious, with AI lowering the barrier to entry so drastically, what does this democratization of cyber attacks mean for that average business, the average size business and business leaders listening there? What should they be doing to prepare against stuff like this?

Darren AnsteyGUEST
Well, the key thing is preparation because, you know, if you're targeted by one of these attack campaigns, you know, trying to react without having done any of the preparation around making sure you've got the right services, the right technologies, the right operational processes in place is going to be a scramble.

Darren AnsteyGUEST
But I suppose the key thing really is to understand, you know, your risk as an organization.

Darren AnsteyGUEST
What does your threat surface really look like? And the big change, I think, there over the last 12 to 18 months is that you have to look beyond not just the infrastructure that you manage as an enterprise now, but also the dependencies within your digital supply chain.

Darren AnsteyGUEST
What we're seeing now is that attackers, if you are a well-defended organization, they will figure that out quite quickly.

Neil C. HughesHOST
And with outbound DDoS traffic now becoming this massive industry-wide challenge, especially with compromised customer equipment recently seen generating floods exceeding, I think, one terabyte, was it, I think? I mean, what is the operational and reputational risk for service providers that are hosting these infected devices, too?