CISSP · Question #414
A criminal organization is planning an attack on a government network. Which of the following is the MOST severe attack to the network availability?
The correct answer is D. Network is flooded with communication traffic by attacker. A network availability attack is an attack that aims to disrupt or deny the normal functioning of a network or its resources. The most severe attack to the network availability is when the network is flooded with communication traffic by the attacker, which is also known as a den
Question
A criminal organization is planning an attack on a government network. Which of the following is the MOST severe attack to the network availability?
Options
- ANetwork management communications is disrupted by attacker
- BOperator loses control of network devices to attacker
- CSensitive information is gathered on the network topology by attacker
- DNetwork is flooded with communication traffic by attacker
How the community answered
(14 responses)- B14% (2)
- C7% (1)
- D79% (11)
Explanation
A network availability attack is an attack that aims to disrupt or deny the normal functioning of a network or its resources. The most severe attack to the network availability is when the network is flooded with communication traffic by the attacker, which is also known as a denial-of-service (DoS) attack. A DoS attack can overwhelm the network bandwidth, consume the processing power of the network devices, or exhaust the memory or disk space of the servers, resulting in degraded performance, slow response, or complete shutdown of the network services.
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