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Do ICMP Security Attacks Have Same Impact on Servers?
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas-RGV, Edinburg, USA
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas-RGV, Edinburg, USA
- 1 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas-RGV, Edinburg, USA
- 2 Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas-RGV, Edinburg, USA
Journal of Information Security·Volume 08 (2017)·Pages 274–283·Published 6 July 2017·DOI10.4236/jis.2017.83018
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Abstract
There are different types of Cyber Security Attacks that are based on ICMP protocols. Many ICMP protocols are very similar, which may lead security managers to think they may have same impact on victim computer systems or servers. In this paper, we investigate impact of different ICMP based security attacks on two popular server systems namely Microsoft’s Windows Server and Apple’s Mac Server OS running on same hardware platform, and compare their performance under different types of ICMP based security attacks.
KeywordsDDoS Security AttacksICMP Based Cyber AttacksMac Server OSWindows Server OS
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