DDoS Attack Mitigation

Network and Computer Security project from the 2018/19 school year.

Overview

DDoS attack that take down servers may be launched via a botnet that enslaves a large number of devices exposed to the Internet and weakly protected devices, like IoT sensors. Attacks can be detected/prevented at the source (client), the destination (server), or in transit (edge).

Objective

The goal of this project is to design and implement mitigation mechanism for a DDoS attack on a small network.

Issues

Issues are listed in "Issues".

Development

Installation

Verify if you have python3 installed first (if not, install it):

$ python3 -V

Then, create a virtual environment and activate it:

$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate

Then, install the requirements:

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Running

TODO

Documents

The report (in Portuguese) can be found at docs directory.