Bob works as information security analyst for a big finance company. One day, the anomaly- based intrusion detection system alerted that a volumetric DDOS targeting the main IP of the main web server

The correct answer is D. Network attack. A volumetric DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack floods the network with massive traffic (e.g., UDP floods, ICMP floods) to exhaust bandwidth and overwhelm infrastructure at the network layer (OSI Layer 3/4). This is classified as a network attack because it targets netwo

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Bob works as information security analyst for a big finance company. One day, the anomaly- based intrusion detection system alerted that a volumetric DDOS targeting the main IP of the main web server was occurring. What kind of attack is it?

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AIDS attack
BAPT
CWeb application attack
DNetwork attack

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A volumetric DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack floods the network with massive traffic (e.g., UDP floods, ICMP floods) to exhaust bandwidth and overwhelm infrastructure at the network layer (OSI Layer 3/4). This is classified as a network attack because it targets network resources rather than exploiting a specific application vulnerability. It is not a web application attack (which targets Layer 7 vulnerabilities like SQLi or XSS), not an APT (which is a long-term stealthy campaign), and not an IDS attack.

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#DDoS#Network attack classification#IDS#Volumetric DDoS

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