CERTIFIED-IN-CYBERSECURITY · Question #100
Which part of the CIA Triad will be PRIMARILY jeopardized in a Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) attack?
The correct answer is A. Availability. Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are malicious attempts to block businesses from their traffic by flooding a target server, service or network with malicious coordinated traffic generated by a wide number of systems on the internet. The goal of DDoS attacks is to…
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Which part of the CIA Triad will be PRIMARILY jeopardized in a Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) attack?
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- AAvailability
- BIntegrity
- CConfidentiality
- DAccountability
How the community answered
(18 responses)- A94% (17)
- C6% (1)
Explanation
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are malicious attempts to block businesses from their traffic by flooding a target server, service or network with malicious coordinated traffic generated by a wide number of systems on the internet. The goal of DDoS attacks is to compromise availability (see ISC2 Study Guide, chapter 1, module 1 and also chapter 4, module 3) . A DDoS attack does not target confidentiality, but it may accidentally compromise integrity. Accountability is the property that actions of an entity can be traced uniquely to that entity (according to NIST SP 800-12), and is not directly threatened by DDoS attacks.
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