Visible to the public Towards Inference of DDoS Mitigation Rules

TitleTowards Inference of DDoS Mitigation Rules
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsŽádník, Martin
Conference NameNOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium
KeywordsAttack, Automation, composability, Computer crime, DDoS, DDoS attack mitigation, Decision trees, denial-of-service attack, Filtering, Human Behavior, machine learning, Metrics, mitigation, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, telecommunication traffic
AbstractDDoS attacks still represent a severe threat to network services. While there are more or less workable solutions to defend against these attacks, there is a significant space for further research regarding automation of reactions and subsequent management. In this paper, we focus on one piece of the whole puzzle. We strive to automatically infer filtering rules which are specific to the current DoS attack to decrease the time to mitigation. We employ a machine learning technique to create a model of the traffic mix based on observing network traffic during the attack and normal period. The model is converted into the filtering rules. We evaluate our approach with various setups of hyperparameters. The results of our experiments show that the proposed approach is feasible in terms of the capability of inferring successful filtering rules.
NotesISSN: 2374-9709
DOI10.1109/NOMS54207.2022.9789798
Citation Keyzadnik_towards_2022