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Suggested page: Flood Attack: Prevention and Protection

A flood attack is a type of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack designed to overwhelm a system with excessive requests, rendering it unable to process legitimate traffic. The primary goal is to disrupt the availability of the targeted service by consuming its resources or causing it to crash entirely. Flood attacks take advantage of a network’s limitations in bandwidth, memory, and processing power. Attackers often utilize botnets to generate this high traffic, making tracing and blocking the sources difficult.

Flood attacks pose the following risks:

  • Service Disruption: They can make websites inaccessible and slow down networks, leading to costly downtime.
  • Financial Losses: Businesses reliant on online services can suffer significant revenue loss during downtime.
  • Reputation Damage: Repeated attacks can erode customer trust and damage a company’s reputation.
  • Resource Drain: Responding to these attacks consumes considerable human and technological resources.
  • Diversion Tactics: Sometimes, flood attacks serve as a distraction, masking more covert intrusions.

The challenge in mitigating such attacks lies in differentiating between genuine and malicious traffic. Flood attacks can be executed using various protocols like TCP, UDP, ICMP, and HTTP, each targeting different facets of network communication.

If you desire to learn more about this topic, we suggest the following page explaining flood attacks!