In the summer of 2016, Neustar commissioned a global, independent research study of 1,002 directors, managers, CISOs, CSOs, CTOs, and other c-suite executives to find out how distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are affecting them, and what precautions they're taking to mitigate the threat. The respondentsrepresent diverse industries such as technology (18%), financial (14%), retail (12%), and government (7%).