• Online, Self-Paced

Uncontrolled Resource consumption occurs when software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of limited resources such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This course introduces ways to identify and mitigate this security weakness, referenced as CWE-400 by the 2020 CWE Top 25.

Learning Objectives

On successful completion of this course, learners should have the knowledge and skills to:

  • Require target systems recognize attacks and deny further access for a given amount of time
  • Uniformly throttle all requests in order to make it more difficult to consume resources more quickly than they can again be freed
  • Ensure that protocols have specific limits of scale placed on them
  • Ensure that all failures in resource allocation place the system into a safe posture

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Risk Management
  • Software Development

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.

Feedback

If you would like to provide feedback for this course, please e-mail the NICCS SO at NICCS@hq.dhs.gov.