Abstract

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks continue to plague the Internet. Attacks have significant effects on social media, content and many other Internet services. Malicious actors are becoming increasingly sophisticated and are employing methods to hide their attack origins, amplify the size of their attacks, and use huge botnets that simply overwhelm their targets. This project directly addresses these advanced attacks by developing and deploying a defense in depth approach, called Deep Layers, to mitigate the types of DDoS attacks seen most recently. Deep Layers will be deployed to protect B-Root, the critical infrastructure that is one of thirteen providers of the Domain Name System (DNS) service for the top level (root) of Internet names that begin with www.

Date

2017

Authors

John S Heidemann, Jelena Mirkovic, Wes Hardaker

Journal

NSF Award

Volume

17

Issue

1739034

Pages

39034