Description
DoS attacks are on the rise because as businesses and consumers use more digital platforms in communicating and transacting with each other, these cyberattacks target digital intellectual property and infrastructures. Cyberattacks are typically launched to steal personally identifiable information (PII), causing considerable damages to the businesses’ financial pockets and reputations. Data breaches can target a specific company or a host of companies at the same time. A company with high-security protocols in place may be attacked through a member of its supply chain with inadequate security measures. When multiple companies have been selected for an attack, the perpetrators can use a DoS approach.
In a DoS attack, the cyber attackers typically use one internet connection and one device to send rapid and continuous requests to a target server to overload the server’s bandwidth. DoS attackers exploit a software vulnerability in the system and proceed to exhaust the RAM or CPU of the server. The damage in loss of service done by a DoS attack can be fixed in a short time by implementing a firewall with allowing and deny rules. Since a DoS attack only has one IP address, the IP address can be easily fished out and denied further access using a firewall.
