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Defense Against DoS, Flooding Attacks

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Overview The following paper concentrates on the means of defense against denial of service attacks. First, some possible and common denial of service attacks are described to give the reader a basic understanding of what is this type of the attacks. The main part of the project is the mechanism, tools and methods used to prevent the denial of service attacks. At the end a short case study along with the description of the small company network is given. When conducting the experiment the author noticed that a successful attack on the networked system is relatively easy as the needed tools are free to download but at the same time the simple means of defense can be applied to make most of the attacks impossible.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Linkopings Universitet	File Format	PDF
Date Published	May 2009
Format	White Papers
Topics	Network Security, Security Management, Denial of Service

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