Reducing the effects of Denial of Service attacks using a cooperative method between ISP’s

Abstract

Methods for mitigating Denial of Service attacks have improved during the past years and these methods used several modern techniques for developing local protection mechanisms to help reduce the severity of these attacks. Despite the fact that using modern techniques reduced the negative effects of some types of attacks but standalone solutions might not result effective solutions, hence work must be done on developing cooperative solutions among several entities to reduce the effects of such attacks. This study includes the usage of a data structure that is exchanged between different network devices which includes attack-related information which is detected and broadcasted among all devices within a network, this implements a deterrent solution by isolating the whole network devices that are participating in DoS attacks even if they were not cooperating in fighting these attacks and this is done by exchanging the DoSGoS Data structure among different devices. Results has shown an improvement in reducing the effects of Denial of Service attacks by isolating the attackers whatever the type of attack used and within an acceptable time after the beginning of the attack