DDoSrelated
DDoS-related refers to the study and handling of distributed denial-of-service events, including the techniques used to disrupt services and the defenses that aim to mitigate them. A DDoS attack attempts to exhaust the resources of a target, such as network bandwidth, processing power, memory, or connection tables, by flooding it with traffic from many compromised devices or misused network services. The goal is to make websites, APIs, or networks unavailable to legitimate users, sometimes for extortion or disruption.
Attack types are commonly categorized by the layer they stress. Volumetric floods overwhelm bandwidth using large
Impacts include service outages, degraded performance, revenue loss, and reputational damage. Attacks can be motivated by
Defenses emphasize preparedness and resilience. This includes capacity planning and redundant architectures, upstream filtering and scrubbing