Distributed Denial of Service Attack and its Countermeasures
Akash Sharma, Deepanshu Batra, Rajat Pandey, Priti Narwal, Vinay Kumar
International Journal of Web Applications, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2018.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6025/ijwa/2018/10/3/91-99
Link: http://www.dline.info/ijwa/fulltext/v10n3/ijwav10n3_2.pdf
Abstract:
Since past few years, there has been a rapid increase in use of attacks or cyber crime over the cyber space and
one of the most common attacks used is the distributed denial of service attack. These attacks leads for use in the variety of
both the attacks and the defence approaches. In this paper, classification of the available mechanisms which are proposed in
the literature on how to keep the cyber space away from the possible DDoS attacks and discuss the strong and weak points
of each mechanism. This provides the better understanding of the problem and enables a security administrator to effectively
equip his storages with proper prevention mechanisms for fighting against DDoS attacks. The paper investigated multiple
nature of the problem and look for its causes, further presenting brief insights and suggested approaches for defending
against DDoS attack.