a lab implementation of syn flood attack and defense
A "denial-of-service" attack is characterized by an explicit attempt by attackers to prevent legitimate users of a service from using that service. SYN flood attack is one of the most common types of DoS. In this lab, we model and simulate a real world network, and we launch a SYN attack against our web server. Through this, we study the nature of the attack and investigate the effectiveness of several approaches in defending against SYN attack. This lab will allow students to anatomize the SYN flooding attack and defense in the lab environment and obtain data and parameters of DoS resilience capability.
curriculum security laboratory