This course is part of the Advanced System Security Design Specialization

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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. 
For the pre-requisites, we recommend the learners take the Design and Analyze Secure Networked Systems course to learn the basic security concepts and principles   and take the Secure Networked System with Firewall and IDS courses to learn the basic firewall and IDS systems.

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week1

Week 1

4 hours to complete

DDoS Attacks

In this MOOC, you will learn the history of DDoS attacks, get an in-depth look at the characteristics new Mirai IoT Malware attack. You will know how to analyze the Mirai source code and understand its design and implementation details. You will also see how forensic evidences pointed where it was designed. By the end of the course, you are able to take a new DDoS malware and perform detailed analysis and collect forensic evidences.

4 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 30 min), 4 readings, 3 quizzes

4 videos

Welcome to DDoS Attack and Defense Course1mHistory of DDoS7mMirai DDoS Attacks10mMirai Source Code Analysis9m

4 readings

DDoS Attack Cases30mHistory of DDoS: from digital civil disobedience to online censorship26mBreaking Down Mirai: An IoT DDoS Botnet Analysis40mMirai Source Code Analysis10m

3 practice exercises

Practice Quiz 2.1.2. Mirai DDoS Characteristics30mPractice Quiz 2.1.3 . Mirai Malware Analysis10mQuiz 2.1 History of DDoS Attacks30m

Week2

Week 2

5 hours to complete

DDoS Defenses

5 hours to complete

3 videos (Total 21 min), 3 readings, 4 quizzes

3 videos

DDoS Defense Challenges and the Approaches8mMajor DDoS Defense Techniques6mIntrusion Response and Intrusion Tolerance6m

3 readings

Technical overview of DDoS and mitigation techniques54mSurvey of Major Techniques in DDoS Defense45mIntrusion Tolerance Literature15m

4 practice exercises

Practice Quiz 2.2.1. Challenges in DDoS Defense30mPractice Quiz. 2.2.2. Unsupervised Anomaly-based Malware Detection Techniques30mPractice Quiz. 2.2.3 Intrusion Tolerance Autonomic Response Systems30mQuiz: DDoS Defenses 2.2.30m

Week3

Week 3

3 hours to complete

DDoS Defense Systems and Techniques

In this module, you learn an Autonomous Anti-DDoS Network called A2D2 suitable for small/medium size business to deal DDoS defense. A2D2 uses Linux Firewall Rate limiting and Class Based Queueing, and subnet flood detection to handle various DDoS traffic types. You learn how to analyze effectiveness of these different defense mechanisms. By the end of this course, you should be able to deploy firewall features to reduce the impact of DDoS on your system and develop strategies for dealing with future DDoS attacks.

3 hours to complete

2 videos (Total 22 min), 2 readings, 3 quizzes

Week4

Week 4

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 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.

by SKJul 25, 2019

This course is one of the best course related to Network security. Additional resources were very useful especially the thesis about A2D2 network. Questions are also very nice and conceptual.

by UAApr 17, 2020

It is a wonderful course on DDoS basics and defense techniques.

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About the Advanced System Security Design Specialization

This specialization is intended for intermediate level learners with basic programming skills and basic cybersecurity knowledge. Through this course learner will learn about advanced secure software techniques such as those for cloud computing, TOR, web-based cryptography, and geo-location/context based access control. With these techniques, learners will be better prepared to implement new security and privacy preserving data security features, to perform secure system design and implementation, vulnerability analysis, and Securely Provision (SP), Operate and Maintain (OM), Oversee and Govern (OV), Protect and Defend (PR), Analyze (AN), Collect and Operate (CO), and investigate (IN) tasks.

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