Comparative Study of DDoS Attacks & Tools and Their Analysis

Distributed denial-of-service or DDoS is one of the most popular attacks and is one of the most widely used attacks which is capable of shutting down a service like web application or even a system completely by supplying it will maliciously file via botnets which makes it harder to trace to the real source and protect against it. DDoS attacks have existed for a long amount of time and made vast improvement. In this paper, the study of various attacks including their Taxonomy has been studied in order to give a brief review about their capabilities and know about their shortcomings. This paper is also focused on the detection, protection and mitigation of attacks and how it can be done in order to keep the system safe. The latter part of the paper gives an analysis on the popular tools that are being used in order to perform these attacks and how their features can make it more effective and what shortcomings come up while using a certain tool for the attack. In conclusion, a summary analysis of the paper has been presented which gives a detailed view of what has been observed which conducting this analysis.