risk
Denial-of-service and system saturation
Simple, targeted, or distributed denial-of-service attacks, wireless jamming, and saturation of systems or networks (adversarial or excessive legitimate load) make resources unavailable to intended users.
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Attributes
- category
- cyber_security
- domain
- Network & Communications Security
- Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
- taxonomy
- nist-800-30-threat-event
- iso-27005-threat
- basel-operational-risk
- coso-erm-risk
- inherent_rating
- high
Details
- risk_id
- net-denial-of-service
- category
- cyber_security
- likelihood
- medium
- impact
- high
- inherent_rating
- high
- treatment
- mitigate
- taxonomies
- nist-800-30-threat-event
- iso-27005-threat
- basel-operational-risk
- coso-erm-risk
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Connections
- UC-NET-09 — Reduce attack surface through resilient architecture mitigates Denial-of-service and system saturation
- strength
- related
- rationale
- Distributing processing/storage removes single choke points, reducing the impact of a denial-of-service attack on any one node.
- UC-BCDR-05 — Manage capacity to meet availability requirements mitigates Denial-of-service and system saturation
- strength
- related
- rationale
- priority-based allocation and quotas protect shared-resource availability under saturation
- UC-NET-08 — Maintain communications availability under attack and failure mitigates Denial-of-service and system saturation
- strength
- primary
- rationale
- Capacity management, rate limiting, filtering, and upstream DoS mitigation are the operative defense against denial-of-service saturation.
- UC-BCDR-06 — Resolve operational incidents and eliminate root causes mitigates Denial-of-service and system saturation
- strength
- related
- rationale
- incident detection and escalation mitigate an ongoing denial-of-service event