DDoS industries best practices

Countermeasures to DDoS

Executive Summary:
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are among the most established and pricey forms of such attacks, posing a serious threat to online businesses. During a DDoS attack, remote attackers generate a flood of traffic to a specific destination to disrupt a targeted website or server. The attack can come from one or multiple compromised machines or large networks of infected computers (i.e. botnets) to flood the target with high volumes of illegal traffic. As the targeted systems strain to keep up with the inundation, the subsequent slowdown/shutdown blocks legitimate users from access. The goal of most DDoS attacks is to force the targeted computing resources completely offline. The assailants succeed most of the time.
The Paradise Beach University (PBU) network specialists’ policy is to get involved in three different phases in fighting the denial of service attacks. During the first step, the network team will have to identify if the school is experiencing an attack and for the second step, the PBU’s specialists will have to find out if the attack has been implemented on the school’s network. For the final and most important phase, the network specialists will need to get involved in counteracting the attack.
Since the PBU network team discovered that a password sniffer application was somehow installed on a large portion of the computers in various university computer labs, and the attack came from inside the network as a User Datagram Protocol (UDP), then the team will need to concentrate on the data packets that were already sent through the UDP protocol and the packets that had already been processed as soon as the receiving system received the packets. Therefore, the whole system has been already compromised and the network specialist will need work on fixing the issue.
The Paradise Beach University specialists will finally counteract the attack. The Network specialists have proposed two schemes to deal with DDoS attacks. Firstly, the team will work by implementing singular tracking routers, the centrally tracking router will be tied to the routers by joining them to the network. The tracking router configuration works by dynamically routing the victim through the network. Consequently, step by step tracking is applied to IP traceback to the access point of the attacking source, beginning from the nearby tracking router to the target. This pattern shows a great advantage to the minimum number of steps that is required to IP traceback to the cause of the attack. Nonetheless, if the method is not executed without a hiccup it could certainly mean that one little error may possibly disturb the system.
For the second method, the Paradise Beach University network specialists will implement the following: the control routers through a database will collect all the traffic information that communicating through the school network. This basically will contain the destination address and the source information. In case an attack has been taken place, the database will be investigated ground on the attack signature as a result to conclude the entrance nearby. The tracing technique is unlimited to the attack period and does not involve any tracking steps to trace the opening edge.
These two DDoS future techniques will frustrate invaders who try to penetrate the Paradise Beach University network system and the PBU registration system’s web servers.
In conclusion, many businesses globally are losing millions of dollars by being penetrated to their organization’s networks. Attackers are causing a great deal of disturbance with the following two forms of attack (DoS) and (DDoS). The amount of resources and time devoted on creating an effective countermeasure is very irrelevant contrary to the initiation of a Distributed Denial of Service attack. Frankly, there are many innovative practices for combating and discovering all these attacks and they are continually being created. Nonetheless, a lot of attacks are also being generated making all these countermeasures outdated. This is an ongoing problem to which there is no permanent solution in prospect.