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About this paper
Rajat Tandon
This survey extensively categorizes Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and defense mechanisms, highlighting low-rate DDoS attacks as a significant, unresolved challenge for existing detection schemes. It reviews various specialized research efforts addressing these stealthy attacks, noting a fragmented landscape without a unified defense framework.
Key insights
- DDoS attacks are continuously escalating in volume and sophistication, with new amplification techniques emerging that bypass reliance on traditional botnets.
- Generic DDoS defense mechanisms face significant challenges including vulnerability to spoofing, practical deployment hurdles, and issues with false positives or negatives.
- Low-rate DDoS attacks remain a critical and largely unsolved problem due to their ability to conceal malicious traffic and exploit application-layer vulnerabilities, rendering current anomaly detection ineffective.
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