Description
Case Study
1. Why is it critical for an organization to have a DoS attack response plan well before it happens?
2. Use the four steps of the NIST computer security process to write a summary and analysis of each of the steps in a DDoS attack scenario.
a. Step 1 - Preparation: What steps would you take to prepare for this type of incident?
b. Step 2 - Detection and Analysis: Steps you would need to take in order to detect a potential DDoS incident and confirm if the incident is accurate
c. Step 3 - Containment Eradication and Recovery: What actions do you need to take to contain and recover from a DDoS incident
d. Step 4 - Post-Incident Activity - Describe the steps you would take post incident
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Discussion
Read the open case scenario called viral vandal, describe the detection and analysis steps in this case. What would you do to contain and eradicate this threat?
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Explanation & Answer
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OUTLINE
1. Importance of DoS attack response plan
2. Summary and analysis of the attack scenario
3. Discussion
4. Reference
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DoS Attack and Viral Vandal
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CASE STUDY
Importance of DoS attack response plan
DoS (Denial of Service) attack regards making the organization’s resources and services
to become unusable. The threat is a malicious trial by various systems to create network
unavailability to the intended users. The attempt is achieved by interrupting and suspending the
services and resources connected to the internet (Singh, Dhindsa, & Bhushan, 2017). Therefore,
the organization must have a response plan for the DoS attack before it happens since it is
challenging to make a recovery upon its occurrence. Organizations should create a business
continuity plan having several steps to counter the attack. DoS attack response plan will enable
business continuation despite the threat occurrence. The steps involved will allow the
organization to detect, analyze, eradicate and recover from the consequences of DoS (Elejla,
Anbar, & Belaton, 2017).
Summary and analysis of the attack scenario
Steps 1 – Preparation for DoS incident
Preparation for the potential occurrence of DoS attack involves four stages (Kalkan, &
Alagoz, 2017);
a) Consider the over-provisioning of services and resources in advance
The step consists of developing the system without a strict budget since DoS incident
requires different changes on the resources and services to manage the threat. Resource
allocation should have space for error to allow for the emerging agencies to control the Denial of
Service threat.
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b) Consider asking for help during emergencies
DoS attacks increase every year; therefore, it is critical to engage different firms in the
prevention of the problem before it occurs. DoS threat appears to be more expensive since it
happens within the organization websites. Involving the relevant firms’ more, so the security
sector will enable business organizations to address the attack and find a solution before the
event.
c) Quickly dumping the log files during the DoS attack
Having a quick dump to the log files during the incident is the first strate...
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