Honeypots for Distributed Denial of Service Attacks

  • Authors:
  • Nathalie Weiler

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • WETICE '02 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: nfrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks are still a big threat the Internet. Several proposals for coping with the attacks have been made in the recent past, but neither of them are successful themselves alone. In this paper, we present a system that helps the defence in depth of a network from DDoS attacks. In addition to state-of-art active and passive security defences, we propose honeypot for such attacks. The goal is to convincingly simulate the success of the compromise of a system to a potential DDoS attacker. Thereby, we can implement the lessons learned by the honeypot in our other systems to harden them against such attacks. On the other hand, we protect the rest of our network infrastructure form the impact of such an attack.