Ashley Stephenson, CEO at Corero Network Security, says: “While it appears that all BBC web services are back to normal operations at this time, the incident highlights two key benefits of automatic in-line DDoS protection. These include: immediate confirmation that a DDoS attack is in progress and the proactive mitigation of the attack to prevent impact on service availability. The initial confusion over the cause of the outage and the subsequent impact on BBC web presence suggest inadequate DDoS security measures were in place at the time of the attack.”