Preventing Denial-of-Service (DoS) Attacks

An organization’s infrastructure and physical assets may determine whether or not it is profitable or successful. Infrastructure needs to be protected just as much as an organization’s data and information.

Go to Basic Search: Strayer University Online Library to locate and integrate at least two quality, academic resources (in addition to your textbook) on denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and how to prevent them. You may also use government websites, such as Cybersecurity https://www.nist.gov/cybersecurity from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Please respond to the following in a post of at least 200 words:

• Introduce yourself to your peers by sharing something unique about your background.
• I’m 30 years old. I’m a full-time student. I’m from Thailand. I live in Virginia right now. I graduated my bachelor’s degree from Thammasat University, majored in Linguistics, faculty of liberal arts. I have zero IT knowledge when I decided to study master degree but I’ll give it a try. (this is briefly information about myself. You can make it up something I don’t mind. Thank you!)

• Explain how you expect this course will help you move forward in your current or future career.
• Define a denial-of-service attack in your own words.
• Explain how this type of attack can adversely impact infrastructure.
• Explain methods organizations can implement to prevent DoS attacks from occurring.
• Provide full citations and references, formatted according to Strayer Writing Standards.
  • For assistance and information, please refer to the Strayer Writing Standards link in the left-hand menu of your course. Check with your professor for any additional instructions.

In 60 to 75 words, please respond to at least one other post. Choose to respond to those who have few or no responses.

Here is the post that you have to respond.

HI this is Jennifer. I am QA Analyst contractor for DoD and its almost fifth year. I do most application testing and automation testing for this work. I do have Security + and LPIC-1 certifications. I have the Master degree in Education and working on second master as Computer Software engineering management. Beside that, I love to study more on Linux and doing Linux hobbies, workout at Kickboxing (25 years), and have a lovely 17 years old deaf cat.

This course help me to understand the foundations of the security what I was study on the certifications on Ethic of Council, Cybersecurity and Pentesting. I have learned a lot on those Cybersecurity. It’s very interesting how things work around security.

Denial-of-service (DoS) attack is used to tie up a website’s resources so that users who need to access the site cannot do so. Its not like virus or malware, its more like network communication and its very vulnerable.

For example, when you visit e-commerce to buy a gift, the computer gives you a package of information to the website. The pop-up message usually appears “Hi, I’d like to visit you, please let me in.” When the server receives your computer’s message, it sends a short one back, saying in a sense, “OK, are you real?” Your computer responds — “Yes!” — and communication is established. Somehow you went in their website and order gifts and placed order and when you closed it and you won’t be able to hear it back when you wanted to know if the gift will be confirmed in your email but they shut you down. They send off to the other link from your router where your IP address directly to those people who you know goes on and on. The website jinxed them and send them fake requests. There are few attacks such as Flood and Crash Attacks. They can be small or big attacks at home or in businesses.

Here how to prevent that, from Norton security program do have pentesting and they aware what other people have many complaints and they will look into the logs and tracking the fake websites and how to blocked them. Pentesting is a great program and it more like defense and offense team or like good and bad persons both sides. They are looking to find ways to block it and may can trace the person and send to FBI will verify all the information gathered the DOS attacks they have done.

The biggest scary part is that on average 30,000 new websites are hacked every day!

Source

https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-emerging-threats-dos-attacks-explained.html