• Online, Self-Paced

Explore the concepts and techniques for performing Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service attacks and examine the various types of attacks.

Learning Objectives

CEHv10: Denial of Service

  • describe the types of DoS/DDoS attacks, differences between them, and the concepts behind amplification and reflective DoS attacks
  • describe volumetric attacks like the Ping of Death, Smurf, Fraggle, UDP flood, and ICMP flood attacks
  • describe protocol type attacks, application layer attacks like HTTP GET/POST and Slowloris using Metasploit, and DoS tools like the High and Low Orbit Ion Cannons

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

  • Cyber Operations
  • Cybersecurity Management
  • Exploitation Analysis
  • Vulnerability Assessment and Management

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

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