APDoS is the clear and imminent danger

Global Application and Network Security Report by Radware: Advanced Persistent Denial of Service (APDoS) attacks are imminent threats, involving network and application layer attacks.  With bursts of attacks now trending to be one hour, an increase of 27% from previous year, the present danger has shifted.  Typically 5-8 multi-vector attacks are exploited a time, generating over 10 million of requests (typically SYN floods for denial of services); hence, rendering the system inoperable…
Industry survey of 311 individual from varying global organizations represented a perspective in fighting cyber attacks, both technical and business, from 2015:

• 24% of the industry were Telecom or Cloud providers, 15% Financial Services, 14% Computer related, and 4% Healthcare/Biotech/Pharmaceuticals
• 30% were Network Engineers, 22% Security Engineers, 20% Mangers, and 5% CIO/CTO/EVP

The study revealed few are prepared to address cyber attacks, resulting from 90% having experienced attacked – in industries including: financial services to enterprise verticals and cloud to critical infrastructure .  And, no one is immune with high certainty related to threat of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Services) attacks.  The preparedness for this as well as APT (Advanced Persistent Threats) hovers around 60% which reflects weakness in overall security gap protection and prevention.  Additionally, a spike in ransom or SSL/TLS-based attacks from 16% to 25% is up in just one year.  While unauthorized access to confidential data is still high on the list, slowness to service delivery and customer service tops the list.  As a result, reputational loss showed a decline from 47% to 26% in one year (as service models are affect - though the two are not completely disconnected).
Automated defenses are preferred, yet only 6% have solutions against cyber attacks and 60% have a degree of manual solutions.  Additionally, an uptick of hybrid solutions have increase from 21% to 41%.
So, APDoS is a top prediction for this year and below is what follows:

• RansomDoS to hit cloud companies
• Privacy is endemic of human conditions and stewards of data beware of rights and penalties
• Introduction/proliferation of Permanent DoS (PDoS) that physically destroys firmware/hardware and renders unusable
• Uplift in cloud encryption 
• Of course, IoT (Internet of Things) and breach of rich data source in the wild wild Internet 

Article source: Radware.com