Distributed Denial of Service
What is Distributed Denial of Service?
An attack that uses multiple compromised systems to simultaneously overwhelm a target with traffic, making services unavailable to legitimate users.
Terms that appear alongside distributed denial of service
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as distributed denial of service. The number is how many controls name both.
- denial of service 4 shared controls
- critical infrastructure 2 shared controls
- incident response 2 shared controls
- access control 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern distributed denial of service
What the standards actually require on distributed denial of service
Requirements naming distributed denial of service across 4 standards, quoted from the control text.
Deploy risk-derived technical controls that promptly detect and respond to irregular inbound or outbound traffic patterns and distributed denial of service attacks, feeding their output into a SIEM so correlated events can trigger countermeasures.
C5-COS-01 · Technical safeguards →Protect against or limit the effects of denial-of-service events such as distributed denial of service and DNS denial of service, using boundary protection devices and intrusion detection or prevention devices.
fbi-cjis-security-policy::SC-5 · SC-5 Denial-Of-Service Protection →Directions 1-4 establish the mandatory incident reporting regime - the highest-profile and most operationally demanding element of the 2022 Directions.
CERTIN-IncidentReporting-6Hour-Mandatory-Format-POC-20Categories-Section70B-Dir1to4 · CERT-In Directions 1-4 Incident Reporting - Mandatory 6-Hour Window + 20 Categories + Standardised Report Format + Designated Point of Contact + 24x7 Channel →The entity protects against distributed denial of service attacks to limit their risks (new in ECC-2).
saudi-nca-ecc::2-5-3-9 · 2-5-3-9 DDoS protection →Questions people ask about distributed denial of service
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