Newswise — Distributed Denial of Service Defenses (DDoS) attacks are a serious threat as attackers are growing increasingly more sophisticated and more effective. DDOS attackers target a machine or network resource to temporarily or indefinitely interrupt or suspend Internet services, making it unavailable intended users.
Typical DDoS attacks are used to render key resources unavailable, such as disrupting an organization’s website and temporarily block a consumer’s ability to access the site. A more strategic attack may render a key resource inaccessible during a critical period. Financial institutions, news organizations and providers of internet security resources can all experience DDoS attacks. All organizations that rely on network resources are considered potential targets. Computer screen with 0s and 1s hitting the screen and being repelled.
“Cybersecurity is a critical technology area that is continuously changing,” said DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology Dr. Reginald Brothers. “We need to be able to quickly adapt to challenges like DDoS attacks and work with our partners so that solutions can be rapidly developed to ensure the security of our Nation’s networks and resources.”
The goal of the Science and Technology Directorate Cyber Security Divisions is to shift the advantage from the attacker to the defender. If we can do that, we increase the ability to withstand future large-scale sophisticated attacks.
In the coming year, CSD is focusing on:•Measurement and Analysis to Promote Best Current Practices: this aims to slow the growth rate in denial of service attacks and make current attacks more difficult by promoting the deployment of existing best practices.
•Tools for Communication and Collaboration: these will develop tools and techniques that allow organizations to collaboratively respond to attacks.
•Novel DDoS Attack Mitigation and Defense Techniques: these address new threats while denial of service attack concepts are being applied to non-traditional targets, such as emergency management systems and cyber physical systems.
And we’d love to hear from you about specific types of attacks, research and technologies to help defend against DDOS attacks.
Please join @dhsscitech on Wednesday, October 21 from noon to 1 p.m. EST for an hour-long chat to discuss S&T’s research and plan securing the nation’s networks by anticipating and defending against DDoS attacks. Submit your questions and comments before, during or after the chat and use the #STTechTalk hashtag to engage in the two-way discussion
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