DDoS tools: Classification, analysis and comparison

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are the major concern for the security experts. DDoS attack presents a serious risk to the internet. In this type of attack a huge number of accommodated targets send a request at the victim's site simultaneously, to exhaust the resources (whether computing or communication resources) within very less time. In the last few years, it is recognised that DDoS attack tools and techniques are emerging as effective, refined, and complex to indicate the actual attackers. Due to the seriousness of the problem many detection and prevention methods have been recommended to deal with these types of attacks. This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the existing tools, methods and attack mechanism. In this paper, we commenced a detailed study of various DDoS tools. This paper can be useful for researchers and readers to provide the better understanding of DDoS tools in present times.