Defending against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks

• Main Author: Wah, Chin Han
• Other Authors: Ng Wee Keong
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer systems organization::Computer system implementation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55036
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The volume, duration and frequency of DDoS attacks have increased significantly every year. The average bandwidth of attack seen during the first quarter of 2013 was of 48.25 Gbps which is an eightfold increase over the last quarter of 2012 whereby the attack bandwidth was averaged at 5.9Gbps. The D...