From the course: Threat Modeling: Denial of Service and Elevation of Privilege
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Persistence and transience of DoS
From the course: Threat Modeling: Denial of Service and Elevation of Privilege
Persistence and transience of DoS
- [Instructor] Attacks have many properties including persistence or transience, clever or naive and native or amplified. Persistence means that the effects of the attack continue until you act. A battery is discharged until someone plugs it in. Transience means the effects go away when the attack does. No one is throwing a gajillions of packets down the wire anymore. Transience and persistence tend to be very tied to the resource. Attacks on CPU or networks tend to be transient. While attacks on storage, battery and budget tend to be persistent. Transience or persistence, and all of the other properties apply to each of the types of resources that can be depleted. A given attack can combine those properties in many ways. So you can have a clever attack on battery consumption, or you could just ask it for lots of work, but these are properties of the attack, not of the resource.
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