Chapter 7. Survey of Research Defense Approaches

Immediately after the first large-scale attacks, much research was dedicated to the new problem of stopping, eliminating, and somehow filtering out DoS attacks targeted at end-host systems. While DDoS was a relatively new problem, related research existed in congestion control, mitigation of simple DoS attacks, fault tolerance, and survivability.

During the CERT Coordination Center’s Distributed System Intruder Tools (DSIT) Workshop [CER99] mentioned in Chapter 3, the initial ideas about DDoS defenses were formed. This workshop produced a report that laid out an array of defensive responses ranging from protection to detection and reaction, in a near-, mid-, and long-term time frame, for managers, ...

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