Denial of Service defense
Most Distributed or standard Denial of Service (DDoS/DoS) tools are open source utilities written in C# or Java. We demonstrated in Chapter 6, Web Attacks, how a single person using a DoS tool can have a devastating impact to a business by limiting access to online sources or taking down a website. DDoS/DoS tools are advertised as web application stress-testing tools. Although they could potentially be used for that, in many cases they are used for nefarious purposes.
DDoS/DoS attacks in most cases require abusing network infrastructure hardware. One of the common methods to defend against DDoS/DoS is configuring network devices that can handle large influx of packets, the ability to detect anomalous behavior, and traffic ...
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