Victim Routine Influences the Number of DDoS Attacks: Evidence from Dutch Educational Network
| Autor: | Abhishta Abhishta, Marianne Junger, Lambert J.M. Nieuwenhuis, Reinoud A.M.G. Joosten |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Industrial Engineering & Business Information Systems |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Computer science Routine activity theory Aims 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies Denial-of-service attack 02 engineering and technology Computer security computer.software_genre NetFlow analysis DDoS attacks 2023 OA procedure NetFlow 050501 criminology Attack patterns computer 0505 law |
| Zdroj: | IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops 2019 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops, SPW 2019, 242-247 STARTPAGE=242;ENDPAGE=247;TITLE=2019 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops, SPW 2019 |
| Popis: | We study the influence of daily routines of Dutch academic institutions on the number of DDoS attacks targeting their infrastructures. We hypothesise that the attacks are motivated and harness the postulates of Routine Activity Theory (RAT) from criminology to analyse the data. We define routine periods in order to group days with similar activities and use 2.5 years of NetFlow alerts data measured by SURFnet to compare the number of alerts generated during each of these periods. Our analysis shows clear correlation between academic schedules and attack patterns on academic institutions. This leads us to believe that most of these attacks are not random and are initiated by someone who might benefit by disrupting scheduled educational activities. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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