Statement of the Problem
The purpose of this report is to provide a framework for system administrators and cybersecurity professionals to detect, prevent, and mitigate denial of service (DoS) attacks.
Denial of Service is described as an attack “written to disrupt network activity and business productivity by causing resources to be unavailable or unreachable” (Andres & Kenyon, 2004, 131). For example, a wireless disassociation attack prevents an individual user from accessing his/her wireless access point (Wi-Fi); Whereas, a distributed denial of service attack utilizes multiple infected devices to over flood a target with more traffic than it is designed to handle, rendering it inaccessible – commonly used to disrupt the availability of web servers (pp. 26-27, 46).
