College Name: Florida Tech
Subject: Networks and Communication
Course Code: MGT 5157
Title: ASSIGNMENT 5
Question 40864: • Differentiate between common network attacks and how they work, including
o Denial-of-service attacks
o Distributed denial-of-service attacks
o Host-based attacks
• Evaluate the applicability of network defense methods to prevalent attack types
Instructions
Answer each of the questions below with a few sentences. Be brief, but fully explain your answer. The assignment poses 5 questions. Each is worth 10 points.
1. Explain what an IPSweep and a PortSweep type of attack are.
2. In a few words, describe the operation of buffer overflow attacks.
3. Describe and explain denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial of service (DDoS) network attacks.
4. Briefly describe what routing attacks are. Provide two examples, highlighting their main characteristics.
5. What countermeasures would you recommend as defense against these types of attacks?
