Chapter 4. Denial of Service Attacks

Chapter Objectives

After reading this chapter and completing the exercises, you will be able to do the following:

Image Understand how denial of service attacks are accomplished

Image Know how certain denial of service attacks work, such as SYN flood, Smurf, and distributed denial of service

Image Take specific measures to protect against denial of service attacks

Know how to defend against specific denial of service attacks ...

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