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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks: Evolution, Impact, & Solutions

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Overview Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks have existed since the early days of computing and have evolved into complex and overwhelming security challenges. Organizations have had to worry not just about DoS attacks, but Distributed DoS attacks (DDoS), and more recently, Distributed Reflector DoS (DRDoS) attacks. As the sophistication of technology and its safeguards increase, the complexity of the attacks leveled against that technology also increases. As such, other more powerful DDoS variants are on the horizon. The problem is so wide-spread, fast-evolving, and confounding, that network security researchers, vendors, administrators, and law enforcement agencies are scrambling to keep up.

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Publisher	VeriSign	File Format	PDF
Date Published	August 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Security Management, Denial of Service

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