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By Pablo Dubois

Pablo Dubois is the regional data center and security product manager for Level 3 in Latin America, responsible for defining regional security and data center products and strategy.  Pablo brings more than 10 years of experience in the telecom industry. Prior to joining Level 3, Pablo worked at Telefónica Argentina within their enterprise security marketing product team. He also worked for Telefónica Ecuador developing the enterprise mobile data market.

Online hackers are increasingly targeting Latin America, with Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico most at risk. The Cipher Brief talked with Pablo Dubois, a data center and security product manager based in Argentina, about the current cyber threat landscape.

The Cipher Brief: Your company – Level 3, a global network services provider – recently produced a threat report revealing that 12 percent of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks target Latin America, and that number is escalating. What are DDoS attacks and what is the impact? Who do attackers target? Why is the number of attacks increasing throughout Latin America?

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