Title :
DDoS attacks and countermeasures in cyberspace
Author :
Zeb, Khan ; Baig, Owais ; Asif, Muhammad Kamran
Author_Institution :
Center of Excellence in Inf. Assurance (CoEIA), King Saud Univ., Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Abstract :
In cyberspace, availability of the resources is the key component of cyber security along with confidentiality and integrity. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack has become one of the major threats to the availability of resources in computer networks. It is a challenging problem in the Internet. In this paper, we present a detailed study of DDoS attacks on the Internet specifically the attacks due to protocols vulnerabilities in the TCP/IP model, their countermeasures and various DDoS attack mechanisms. We thoroughly review DDoS attacks defense and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of different proposed mechanisms.
Keywords :
Internet; computer network security; transport protocols; DDoS attack mechanisms; Internet; TCP-IP model; computer networks; cyber security; cyberspace; distributed denial of service attacks; Computer crime; Filtering; Floods; IP networks; Internet; Protocols; Servers; Cyber security; Cyber-attack; Cyberspace; DDoS Defense; DDoS attack; Mitigation; Vulnerability;
Conference_Titel :
Web Applications and Networking (WSWAN), 2015 2nd World Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Sousse
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-8171-7
DOI :
10.1109/WSWAN.2015.7210322
