Is it possible to prevent denial-of-service (DoS) attacks from affecting an enterprise network? If so, what are the best strategies for DoS attack prevention?

In short: no. There is no way to completely defend the network from denial-of-service attacks, especially with the prevalence of botnet-driven distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on the internet today. It’s extremely difficult to differentiate between a malicious request and a legitimate request because they often use the same protocols/ports, and they may resemble each other in content.

Published December 2016 in SearchSecurity
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