Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the techniques and tools used in DoS attacks. DoS attacks are a result of violations of protocol stacks or resource exhaustion. You should take care to ensure that packets traversing your network comply with the RFC standards for TCP (RFC 793) and other protocols. You should ensure that proper measures are in place to detect when these malformed packets and traffic floods are on your network. With the proper steps, you can minimize the threat of these deadly attacks in your environment.