From the course: CompTIA Security+ (SY0-601) Cert Prep: 8 Network Security Design and Implementation

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Denial of service attacks

Denial of service attacks

From the course: CompTIA Security+ (SY0-601) Cert Prep: 8 Network Security Design and Implementation

Start my 1-month free trial

Denial of service attacks

“

- [Instructor] By this point, you should know that the CIA triad describes the three goals of information security, confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Most of the attack techniques used by attackers focus on undermining the confidentiality or the integrity of data. By far, the most common motivation of an attacker is to steal sensitive information such as credit card numbers or social security numbers or alter information in an unauthorized fashion, such increasing bank account balances or defacing a website. Some attacks, however, focus on disrupting the legitimate use of a system. Unlike other attacks, these target the availability leg of the CIA triad. We call these attacks denial of service DoS attacks. A denial of service attack is an attack that makes a system or resource unavailable to legitimate users. It sends thousands or millions of requests to a network, server or application overwhelming…

Contents