Motives behind ddos attacks
(2021) Annual Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS , 2019 In Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation 37. p.135-147- Abstract
Behind everything we do in our daily lives there is a reason for doing it. This paper looks into the motives behind DDoS attacks as a form of cyberattack along with attacker personas. This paper also investigates DDoS attacks technically and it is suggested that there is a need for a socio-technical approach to these attacks to investigate why they occur and the reasoning the attacker(s) could have for launching these attacks. This paper finds several motives behind DDoS attacks and discusses the profiles that attackers can be sorted into. Also discussed are the motives that attacker profiles can have for launching DDoS attacks. Although mitigation techniques are in place to control the damage a DDoS attack can cause to a company, if... (More)
Behind everything we do in our daily lives there is a reason for doing it. This paper looks into the motives behind DDoS attacks as a form of cyberattack along with attacker personas. This paper also investigates DDoS attacks technically and it is suggested that there is a need for a socio-technical approach to these attacks to investigate why they occur and the reasoning the attacker(s) could have for launching these attacks. This paper finds several motives behind DDoS attacks and discusses the profiles that attackers can be sorted into. Also discussed are the motives that attacker profiles can have for launching DDoS attacks. Although mitigation techniques are in place to control the damage a DDoS attack can cause to a company, if the motives can be addressed first, these attacks could be prevented. With the use of case studies, visualisations and tables, the motives behind DDoS attacks and attacker personas are presented.
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- author
- Traer, Scott and Bednar, Peter LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Cyberattacks, DDoS attacks, Motives, Profiles, Socio-technical
- host publication
- Digital Transformation and Human Behavior- Innovation for People and Organisations
- series title
- Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation
- editor
- Metallo, Concetta ; Ferrara, Maria ; Lazazzara, Alessandra and Za, Stefano
- volume
- 37
- pages
- 13 pages
- publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
- conference name
- Annual Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS , 2019
- conference location
- Naples, Italy
- conference dates
- 2019-09-27 - 2019-09-28
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85118462242
- ISSN
- 2195-4968
- 2195-4976
- ISBN
- 9783030475383
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-47539-0_10
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Publisher Copyright: © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
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- a14307b9-33f0-4c22-859d-82bd4bde5f9a
- date added to LUP
- 2021-12-02 12:36:35
- date last changed
- 2024-04-20 16:55:35
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keywords = {{Cyberattacks; DDoS attacks; Motives; Profiles; Socio-technical}},
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publisher = {{Springer Science and Business Media B.V.}},
series = {{Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation}},
title = {{Motives behind ddos attacks}},
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