"Suddenly your Web server becomes unavailable. When
you investigate, you realize that a flood of packets is surging into your network. You have just become one of the hundreds of thousands of victims of a denial-of-service attack, a pervasive and growing threat to the Internet.
What do you do?" Internet Denial of Service sheds light
on a complex and fascinating form of computer attack that impacts the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of millions of computers worldwide.
It tells the network administrator, corporate CTO, incident responder, and student how DDoS attacks are prepared and executed, how to think about DDoS, and how to arrange computer and network defenses. It also provides a suite of actions that can be taken before, during, and after an attack.
1 Introduction
2 Understanding denial of service
3 History of DoS and DDoS
4 How attacks are waged
5 An overview of DDoS defenses
6 Detailed defense approaches
7 Survey of research defense approaches
8 Legal issues
9 Conclusions
Appendix Survey of commercial defense approaches
Appendix DDoS data