Defending Government Network Infrastructure Against Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

Overview

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are a class of network security threat whereby one or more attackers target network resources and servers to deny service to legitimate users. Increasingly, such attacks come from multiple, physically and network-topologically separated locations - a variation dubbed "Distributed" DoS attacks or DDoS attacks - making it harder to locate the attacker or thwart the attacker.