Load Balancers

Question 1

▪ Distributes incoming requests across several servers inside a server farm
or a cloud infrastructure
▪ Is one of the key things to help defend against a DoS
attack or a DDoS attack

Answer 1

Load Balancer/ Content Switch

Question 2

Involves a continual flooding of victim systems with
requests for services, causing the system to crash (single
attacker)

Answer 2

Denial of Service (DoS)

Question 3

Multiple machines simultaneously launch attacks on the
server to force it offline (multiple attackers)

Answer 3

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)

Question 4

Identifies any attacking IP addresses and routes their
traffic through a Knoll interface

Answer 4

Blackholing/Sinkholing

Question 5

Works for small-scale attacks against DoS

Answer 5

Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)

Question 6

Allows to scale up the demand as needed

Answer 6

Elastic Cloud