Hackers Beware

Preventing Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

In the previous section, we covered what a company can do to minimize its chances of being a victim of a Denial of Service or a Distributed Denial of Service attack. Because in both cases a victim is being flooded with packets, a victim takes the same defense measure whether they are being flooded by a single machine or multiple machines because the defense mechanisms are the same.

Because distributed Denial of Service attacks involve an attacker breaking into other networks and using those computers to launch attacks, companies also want to make sure that their servers cannot be used by an attacker as a DDOS server to break into other sites. Some of the steps covered in the previous section can ...