Details

DoS Prevention – Drop UDP Flood Attack

Solution

In the Web UI navigate to the ‘Firewall’ – > ‘Default Packet Handling’ section. Click the checkbox next to ‘Drop UDP Flood Attack’.

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 WatchGuard.

References

• 800-53|SC-5

Source

• Tenable.com/audits