Cyber Security Essentials

6 Cyber seCurity essentiAls

from accessing it. One form of DoS is resource exhaustion, whereby

an attacker overloads a system to the point that it no longer responds

to legitimate requests. e resources in question may be memory,

central processing unit (CPU) time, network bandwidth, and/or any

other component that an attacker can influence. One example of a

DoS attack is network flooding, during which the attacker sends so

much network traffic to the targeted system that the traffic saturates

the network and no legitimate request can get through.

Understanding the components of the CIA triad and the concepts

behind how to protect these principals is important for every security

professional. Each component acts like a pillar that holds up the s ...