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DOS attacks. Which of the following is most useful against DOS attacks?

The correct answer is A. SPI. Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) is the most effective defense against DoS attacks because it tracks connection states and can identify and drop flood or malformed traffic that does not match a valid session.

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Question

DOS attacks. Which of the following is most useful against DOS attacks?

Options

  • ASPI
  • BDistributive firewall
  • CHoney Pot
  • DInternet bot

How the community answered

(59 responses)
  • A
    92% (54)
  • B
    2% (1)
  • C
    5% (3)
  • D
    2% (1)

Why each option

Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) is the most effective defense against DoS attacks because it tracks connection states and can identify and drop flood or malformed traffic that does not match a valid session.

ASPICorrect

SPI maintains a dynamic state table of all active connections and validates that each incoming packet belongs to a legitimate, established session. This enables the firewall to detect and block DoS patterns such as SYN floods, UDP floods, and spoofed packets that cannot be matched to any valid connection state entry.

BDistributive firewall

A distributive firewall improves security coverage across a network but does not inherently provide the connection-state tracking mechanism needed to specifically counter DoS flood traffic.

CHoney Pot

A honeypot is a decoy system used to lure and study attackers, not a tool that actively blocks or mitigates DoS traffic directed at production systems.

DInternet bot

An internet bot is an automated software agent and is not a defensive security technology used to counter DoS attacks.

Concept tested: Stateful Packet Inspection as a DoS countermeasure

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/firewalls/what-is-a-stateful-firewall.html

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#SPI firewall#DoS protection#stateful packet inspection

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