Embodiments are provided to allow institutions and individuals the ability to subscribe to notifications regarding DDoS attacks on certain types of institutions, e.g., institutions that fall into certain market verticals or categories. Subscriber data can be integrated with an attack monitoring platform (AMP), which can push out certain information to a system, which tabulates and analyzes the information regarding attacks. If an attack is detected based on predefined thresholds and conditions, a database lookup is performed and a notification that contains certain attack attributes can be sent out to the appropriate subscribers. Subscribers can also be provided with a mechanism to modify their level of DDoS attack notification threshold.