In this MOOC, you will learn the history of DDoS attacks and analyze new Mirai IoT Malware and perform source code analysis. you will be provided with a brief overview of DDoS Defense techniques. You learn an Autonomous Anti-DDoS Network called A2D2 for small/medium size organizations to deal with DDoS attacks. A2D2 uses Linux Firewall Rate limiting and Class Based Queueing, and subnet flood detection to handle various DDoS traffic types. You learn the new Intrusion tolerance paradigm with proxy-based multipath routing for DDoS defense. By developing and deploying such a new security mechanism, you can improve performance and reliability of the system at the same time and it does not have to be just an overhead. By the end of this course, you should be able to analyze new DDoS malware, collect forensic evidences, deploy firewall features to reduce the impact of DDoS on your system and develop strategies for dealing with future DDoS attacks.
This course is part of the Advanced System Security Design Specialization
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
4 hours to complete
DDoS Attacks
4 hours to complete
4 videos (Total 30 min), 4 readings, 3 quizzes
5 hours to complete
DDoS Defenses
5 hours to complete
3 videos (Total 21 min), 3 readings, 4 quizzes
3 hours to complete
DDoS Defense Systems and Techniques
3 hours to complete
2 videos (Total 22 min), 2 readings, 3 quizzes
4 hours to complete
Intrusion Tolerance with Proxy-based Multipath Routing
4 hours to complete
2 videos (Total 21 min), 3 readings, 3 quizzes
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TOP REVIEWS FROM DDOS ATTACKS AND DEFENSES
by UAApr 17, 2020
It is a wonderful course on DDoS basics and defense techniques.
by MMay 27, 2020
it was Amazing learning experience . I recommended please enroll the course
by FKAug 27, 2019
Need some updates with different content in the course. Really helpful to understand DDOS Attacks
by ADOct 30, 2020
I got to learn many thing regarding Network Security which will help me in future.
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