Software businesses are no strangers to technical challenges, whether it’s facing development bottlenecks or changing client demands. But beyond these battles lies an even greater challenge for software companies – threats from cybercriminals including DDoS Protection for SaaS.
Cybersecurity attacks are becoming increasingly common, with cybercriminals adopting more complex and sophisticated methods to target businesses that rely on a digitally powered ecosystem. Software businesses are often highly vulnerable to ransomware and DDoS attacks that threaten to disrupt services, steal data, or extort money.
What your software business needs is a robust and proactive cybersecurity solution that can prevent DDoS attacks and ransomware threats. By including ransomware and DDoS protection in your SaaS business, you’re not only protecting your company from cybersecurity threats, but also building a sound data backup strategy around it.
In this blog, we explore what these cybersecurity threats are, how they affect you, and the best ransomware and DDoS protection techniques to employ.
Understanding Cybersecurity Threats
According to the Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2025, approximately 612,000 UK businesses and 61,000 charities identified a cyber breach or attack in 2024. According to the survey, ransomware attacks increased significantly compared to the previous year, with only 4% of businesses reporting them. Comparatively, DDoS attacks affected 15% of large businesses compared to 6% of businesses overall.
The consequences of these cybersecurity threats are terrifying, with businesses at risk of losing millions in recovering data, lost sales, and fines.
Before we dive into preventing DDoS attacks and ransomware threats, let’s first understand them better.
Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware is a type of malware that encrypts an organisation’s key data and files and makes them unreadable. It can infect your systems through phishing emails, malicious attachments, or hacked websites. In a ransomware attack, you can only access the decrypted version of your files and data when you pay the cybercriminals a ransom.
Also known as “data kidnapping”, companies may lose access to customer data, source code, or internal tools, bringing software development cycles and customer-based services to a grinding halt.
Even more frustratingly, paying the ransom doesn’t guarantee data restoration, and you risk exposing confidential information that can potentially harm your reputation and invite legal trouble.
DDoS Attacks
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack interrupts your connectivity and/or affects your network services, affecting the availability of your website or application for end users.
In these cases, compromised systems send massive amounts of false traffic to your servers, overwhelming your company’s network bandwidth and knocking your website or the entire network offline for an extended period of time. They target your computer systems and can exploit machines and IoT devices.
Common DDoS attack methods include UDP flood attacks, SYN floods, CharGEN flood, ICMP (Ping) flood, ICMP fragmentation flood, DNS amplification, and TCP flood attacks.
Rather than waiting for the next breach or attack, it’s best to focus on methods of prevention. Along with cybersecurity measures, having strong and secure data backups can help protect your business from the damage caused by cyber threats.
Implementing Robust Security Measures
Here’s how you can raise your guard against attackers.
Infrastructure Hardening
“Infrastructure hardening” involves creating regular steps such as regularly updating and patching systems, removing unused services, closing open ports that aren’t needed and keeping firewalls and threat detection systems up to date. This approach “hardens” your IT infrastructure, reducing the vulnerable surface and creating a secure hosting environment.
Data Protection Strategies
Data is undoubtedly amongst the most valuable assets of any software business. This is why data protection requires a well-chalked-out strategy, including role-based access control (RBAC) for restricted access, encryption at rest and in transit with SSL/TLS and AES protocols, and frequent ransomware backup protection in geographically diverse locations.
At BlackBox Hosting, we deliver complete peace of mind with our commercial backup solutions. In the unfortunate event of a cyberthreat, we can recover and restore your valuable data and files quickly, with minimal loss of service. Our cloud architects follow an expert-backed 3-2-1 rule involving onsite, offsite, and archiving of data to avoid recovery failure.
Employee Training and Awareness
Simple human error can compromise even the most secure cybersecurity infrastructure. Ensure your employees receive regular cybersecurity training to identify phishing attempts, follow data access and transfer protocols, and encourage a safety-first mindset at all levels.
Investing in Advanced Security Solutions
Here are some security measures you should consider adopting:
DDoS Protection Techniques
- Detect and block threatening traffic in real time
- Integrate AI systems to differentiate between attackers and users
- Redirect your traffic through scrubbing centres to maintain uptime
At BlackBox Hosting, our DDoS Protection service doesn’t come at an additional cost; it’s an inbuilt protection for all our clients, assuring them complete protection from attacks from day one. Maximise on our DDoS Mitigation Service with cutting-edge features including:
Global Fortinet Firewall: We monitor continually, ensuring real-time detection and neutralisation of threats
Voxility Auto-DDoS Filter: Incoming traffic remains unfiltered until a threat is detected, post which we automatically shield and safeguard your operations with our powerful 1Tbps+ DDoS Shield.
Manual Edge/Cogent Upstream Blocking: Benefit from an extra layer of manual protection process with Edge and Cogent upstream blocking, which is closely monitored by our experienced cybersecurity specialists.
Ransomware Backup Protection & Defence Mechanisms
- Flexible backups of endpoints that can’t be manipulated by ransomware
- Enable quick and easy recovery of data from the cloud
- Invest in multi-layer backup solutions
- Contain breaches by segmenting networks
BlackBox Hosting can help you with robust backup solutions for cloud, virtual and physical backup, which take away the risk and worry of losing data.
Partner With BlackBox Hosting for Ransomware and DDoS Protection for Your SaaS
Your organisation’s security infrastructure is only as strong as the cloud hosting service backing you. As a cloud hosting service provider, we don’t just sell rack space, but also support your business with high-functioning, efficient and secure IT infrastructure.
Our commercial backup solutions include DRaaS and BaaS that act as ransomware and DDoS protection for your SaaS data, helping you recover quickly and keeping your business up and running. Moreover, our 3-2-1 rule avoids recovery failure and offers you complete peace of mind.
We offer a 99.999% uptime guarantee – just one of our USPs fueling our 100% client retention. We’re a client-centric service provider, offering 24/7 monitoring and incident response to support your business continuity plan when it matters the most.
Count on our commercial backup solutions to deliver multiple layers of protection for your software business. Call us on +44(0)203 740 7840 or contact us to learn how we can support your IT infrastructure.
