Protecting against targeted attacks

Throughout this chapter, we have seen many tools and strategies to secure our infrastructure against standard attacks better. In some situations, such as when someone purposefully tries to take your service down using denial of service (DoS) attacks or a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, this might not be enough.

Protecting against DoS and DDoS attacks

In some cases, an attacker may try to target your service with a sophisticated attack.

The two most common attacks are:

• Volumetric attacks: Where an attacker takes advantage of a botnet and overloads your servers with thousands and thousands of concurrent requests to the point that your servers are saturated.
• Layer 7 attacks: Where...