Enterprise-Grade IT Security for Small and Medium Businesses: Building Security Systems, in Plain English

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D. CherryEnterprise-Grade IT Security for Small and Medium Businesseshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8628-9_4

4. Distributed Denial of Service

Denny Cherry¹  

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Denny Cherry & Associates Consulting, LLC, Oceanside, CA, USA

 

A denial of service attack against a computer network, is a network based attack with the goal of taking the network offline. This can prevent the company users from being able to access the internet as well as preventing external customers from accessing resources such as the companies website.

Many people think that a Denial of Service attack can be resolved by having a traditional Firewall in place. This is not the case, as a Denial ...