1.5. What Can This Book Help You Do?

This book will help you understand the problem of DDoS. It will help you in evaluating current defenses and in choosing the right ones for you. It will help you protect your network, minimizing damages and quickly recovering if you do get attacked.

We wrote this book because surprisingly, considering DDoS has existed as a problem since 1999 there are currently no books that focus exclusively on DDoS. Existing network security books either ignore the topic or devote at most a chapter to it. These works provide enough information for computer practitioners who merely need to be familiar with the concept, but not nearly enough for a network administrator or CTO who needs to protect her network from such attacks and must be prepared to recover from them. There are many academic papers on the subject, but their view is limited to their particular research topic. There are also white papers from companies offering products to ameliorate DDoS attacks, but they are primarily interested in demonstrating the effectiveness and other advantages of their particular product.