CLASSIFICATION OF THE METHODS OF DDOS-ATTACK

Abstract

The article describes Internet distributed denial of service- attacks (DDoS-attacks) and proposes classification of such offences by the objectives and tools of realization, making distinction between typical methods and those based on the hierarchy of generalized structure. The hierarchical classification proposed in the article can be considered to be universal from the point of view of DDoS-attacks mechanisms and sufficient for understanding of the processes of their organization.

The hierarchy-based approach can significantly reduce the time of analysis during solving typical problems, necessary for the protection of a system and for neutralization of malicious attempts. Such classification can serve as a basis for engineering of the tools of detection and identification of DDoS-attacks in certain protocols at application level which makes it not only analytic but practically oriented as well. See the modern electronic service systems for customers in the transport sphere it can be useful for the protection of this sector too.