How to Stop a DDoS Attack with Effective Mitigation and Prevention Software
Monitor event logs from a wide range of sources to detect and prevent DDoS activities
Detect communications with command and control servers to prevent DDoS attacks
DDoS attacks are performed by botnets, which infiltrate systems around the world. A botnet of a few hosts is relatively harmless, but a botnet comprised of thousands of machines represents a very powerful force capable of bringing down targeted organizations.
SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) is built to leverage community-sourced lists of known bad actors to more easily identify interactions with potential command and control servers. This is accomplished by consolidating, normalizing, and reviewing logs from a wide range of sources, including IDS/IPS, firewalls, servers, authentication services, and workstations.
Respond in real time with rule-based event correlation
Botnets work by overwhelming legitimate online services to the extent that the online service can't handle the volume of activity and is effectively offline for the duration of the attack. A botnet can lie dormant until it receives instructions from the command and control servers.
SEM is an incident response software designed with automated responses that can range from sending an alert, to blocking an IP, to actually shutting down an account. These options are easily configurable using checkboxes and do not require extensive custom scripts, helping ensure suspicious system activity doesn’t go unnoticed.
Investigate breaches and DDoS mitigation with forensic tools
Logs and events captured by SolarWinds SEM are built to be encrypted, compressed, and recorded in an unalterable read-only format. This repository of logs represents a single source of truth that can be leveraged in post breach investigations and DDoS mitigation.
Searches in SEM are designed to be easily customized to filter for specific timeframes, specific accounts or IPs, or combinations of parameters. With a simple drag-and-drop UI leveraging simple Boolean logic, you can easily build queries to search in SEM without the need to use grep or regex.
Analyze data and adapt to new types of threats
SolarWinds Security Event Manager provides user-friendly dashboards and widgets, which make tracking and analyzing data simple. With the help of various widget types, including KPI, Proportional, Time Series - Long Term, Time Series - Short Term, Events Per Second - Last Hour, File Audit Failures by User, and Node Health, you can highlight and summarize trends on your SEM dashboard.
However, SEM goes beyond providing functional dashboards and widgets. It can also generate reports, making it even easier to analyze data and respond to new types of threats. Not only does SEM offer a wide range of built-in reports, including All Event Data Last 10 Minutes or Last Week, Change Management Event Data Last Week, High Severity Event Data Last Day, and more, but it also provides opportunities for customization. With these reports, you can adapt rules and response actions to tackle ever-changing types of threats.
Gain more capabilities with Security Observability
For additional capabilities, use SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, a powerful tool that can provide real-time visibility across your networks, infrastructures, applications, and databases. With insights from SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, you can more easily identify vulnerabilities and risks without being overwhelmed by data and alerts. What’s more, SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted can be easily integrated with SEM and SolarWinds Access Rights Manager, allowing for more comprehensive and streamlined security via a single-pane-of-glass view.
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Do you find yourself asking…
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a type of cyberattack that uses the distributed power of many compromised machines to flood the target system with requests, overwhelming the system and preventing it from functioning. DDoS attacks are a complex form of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, which only come from one source.
To create a DDoS attack, bad actors will design a variety of malware programs and viruses to flood your network from multiple directions, overwhelming your server’s capacity to function and potentially leading to a partial or total shutdown of operations.
All DDoS attacks share the same strategy of multiple server-induced cyberattacks, but DDoS attacks can take a variety of forms. Common DDoS attacks include:
- Volumetric attacks flood network ports with excess data
- Protocol attacks slow down intra-network communication
- Application attacks overwhelm web traffic and other application-level operations
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a type of cyberattack that uses the distributed power of many compromised machines to flood the target system with requests, overwhelming the system and preventing it from functioning. DDoS attacks are a complex form of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, which only come from one source.
To create a DDoS attack, bad actors will design a variety of malware programs and viruses to flood your network from multiple directions, overwhelming your server’s capacity to function and potentially leading to a partial or total shutdown of operations.
All DDoS attacks share the same strategy of multiple server-induced cyberattacks, but DDoS attacks can take a variety of forms. Common DDoS attacks include:
- Volumetric attacks flood network ports with excess data
- Protocol attacks slow down intra-network communication
- Application attacks overwhelm web traffic and other application-level operations
Stop damaging attacks with DDoS detection tools
Security Event Manager
- Detect malicious activity between command and control servers and botnets using a list of community-sourced bad actors.
- Respond in real time to suspicious activity or communications.
- Determine the full extent of compromised security using integrated forensic tools.