| Resumen |
Nowadays, a lot of web servers are object of great
threats and vulnerabilities [7] that compromise their security.
One of the possible threats that Web servers face is a Denial of
service (DoS). This attack endangers the availability of a service,
and is effective when there are no protection mechanisms that
allow its mitigation. This paper presents measurements made to a
denial of service attack that exhausts the capacity to release
resources from an Apache Web server with the Linux operating
system. For this, a test network with common security controls
was used. In this scenario two mechanisms for mitigating the
effects of DoS attack were implemented and measured in order to
reduce recovery time of service. |
