It didn’t have to be this way. This was never meant to be on the internet. \r\n \r\n On February 28, 2018, Akamai recorded a 1.35 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against one of our customers. The attack was driven by a relatively new vector, memcached reflection. Possibly the largest publicly disclosed DDoS attack to date, the memcached attack was more than twice the size of the largest DDoS attacks that were launched against an Akamai customer by the operators of the Mirai botnet in September 2016. \r\n \r\n Memcached is a service that is meant to cache data and reduce the strain caused by storage intensive tasks and services. In theory, it is only supposed to be used on an internal/private network to assist with short-term storage and delivery of data among systems as part of an application or service.…