Details
Denial of service is a condition when a resource is not available for legitimate users. Packet-flooding DDoS attacks are referred to as volumetric attacks and have the objective of overloading a network or circuit to deny or seriously degrade performance, which denies access to the services that normally traverse the network or circuit. Volumetric attacks have become relatively easy to launch by using readily available tools such as Low Orbit Ion Cannon or botnets.
Measures to mitigate the effects of a successful volumetric attack must be taken to ensure that sufficient capacity is available for mission-critical traffic. Managing capacity may include, for example, establishing selected network usage priorities or quotas and enforcing them using rate limiting, Quality of Service (QoS), or other resource reservation control methods. These measures may also mitigate the effects of sudden decreases in network capacity that are the result of accidental or intentional physical damage to telecommunications facilities (such as cable cuts or weather-related outages).
Solution
Enable QoS on the switch:
SW1(config)#mls qos
Supportive Information
The following resource is also helpful.
This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: System and Communications Protection.This control applies to the following type of system Cisco.
References
- 800-53|SC-5(2)
- CAT|II
- CCI|CCI-001095
- Rule-ID|SV-220625r539671_rule
- STIG-ID|CISC-L2-000040
- STIG-Legacy|SV-110221
- STIG-Legacy|V-101117
- Vuln-ID|V-220625