In August and September, threat actors unleashed the biggest distributed denial-of-service attacks in Internet history by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in a key technical protocol.

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Cloudflare revealed this week that they battled massive, record-setting distributed denial of service attacks against their cloud infrastructure in August and September.

Here are all the best practices and common pitfalls you need to know before and after you make the switch from HTTP to HTTPS. While Google is giving you a nudge and trying to be as helpful as possible ...