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Securing against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

Overview During the week of February 6th, 2000, a wave of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks flooded the bandwidth of some of the internet's biggest players, temporarily shutting down or severely impairing the performance of Yahoo!, Buy.com, e*Trade, eBay, Amazon and several other significant websites. The Yankee Group's internet security expert Matthew Kovar predicted a "$1.2 billion impact" on the affected companies.

In response to the urgent industry need to secure their systems from the DDoS threat, this document is a draft process currently in review, which proposes a process approach to preventing DDoS attacks. This approach was derived from the "Software Process Framework for the SEI Capability Maturity Model" by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University [SEI].

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Publisher	CSCL - Client/Server Connection Ltd.	File Format	HTML
Date Published	April 2000	Downloads	11
Format	White Papers
Topics	Anti-Hacking, Denial of Service

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