Cyber Security Flood Attacks and Risk Assessment for Internet of Things (IoT) Distributed Systems

Cyber-attacks continue to create havoc for Internet connected services and systems. Cyber-attacks can compromise not only a single computer system but also a distributed computing system such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices and networks. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) based cyber security attacks can have varying adverse impacts on the operation of a computing system. There are different types of DDoS flood attacks found to be commonly used include Ping flood attacks and TCP-SYN flood attacks against distributed systems and IoTs. In this paper, for evaluation purposes, we conducted experiments to measure the impact of these two common flood attacks on the operation of an Internet connected computer system. The impact of flood attacks on the computing system under two flooding mechanisms were measured and compared for risk assessment and risk profiling for AI training for effective protection.