Network Protection Against DDoS Attacks

Petr Dzurenda, Zdenek Martinasek, Lukas Malina

Abstract


The paper deals with possibilities of the network protection against Distributed Denial of Service attacks (DDoS). The basic types of DDoS attacks and their impact on the protected network are presented here. Furthermore, we present basic detection and defense techniques thanks to which it is possible to increase resistance of the protected network or device against DDoS attacks. Moreover, we tested the ability of current commercial Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), especially Radware DefensePro 6.10.00 product against the most common types of DDoS attacks. We create five scenarios that are varied in type and strength of the DDoS attacks. The attacks intensity was much greater than the normal intensity of the current DDoS attacks.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11601/ijates.v4i1.103

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