Some studies on distributed denial of service attacks and solutions by honeymesh

Abstract

In this digital world, anyone can access as well as process information in internetwork. This openness feature of Internet is the primary reason for its dominance. Meanwhile, this same feature creates multiple loopholes and security issues in these networks. Out of many threats and attacks to which the Internet is vulnerable to, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks remain predominant. DDoS attacks are evolving in the networked world with improvised state-of-the art techniques and imprints acute onset over legitimate network resources, components, etc. Since the DDoS attackers made the possibility of conducting DDoS by anyone in a simplest way, this menace is still unstoppable. Many researchers and security practitioners proposed solutions for these DDoS attacks right from the beginning, but attackers coming out with cutting edge technology of attacks with multiple variations. This research work focuses on mitigating the DDoS attacks through the network of honeypots. The impact of DDoS attack is tested with and without honeypot mechanisms. Initially, this research work concentrates on mitigating DDoS through combining rate-limit and Access Control Lists (ACL) mechanisms. newline newline newline