Question

1. what is Denial of Service attack ?

2. the types of denial-of-service attack
3. The methods of preventing denial of service attack .

Answer 1

1. A Denial of Service (DoS) attack is a type of cyberattack that is designed to disrupt the services of a network or server by flooding it with large amounts of traffic or requests.

2. The types of denial-of-service attack include: Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), TCP SYN Flood, Ping of Death, Smurf Attack, and ICMP Flood.

3. The methods of preventing denial of service attack include using firewalls and intrusion prevention systems, protecting vulnerable applications, restricting user access to the network, identifying and blocking malicious IP address, and using monitoring tools to detect suspicious activities.