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Akamai KSD Service Impact Level 2 ALG Security Technical Implementation Guide
SRG-NET-000362-ALG-000112
Kona Site Defender providing content filtering must protect against known and unknown types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing rate-based attack prevention behavior analysis.
Kona Site Defender providing content filtering must protect against known and unknown types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing rate-based attack prevention behavior analysis. An XCCDF Rule
Kona Site Defender providing content filtering must protect against known and unknown types of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks by employing rate-based attack prevention behavior analysis.
Medium Severity
<VulnDiscussion>If the network does not provide safeguards against DoS attacks, network resources may not be available to users during an attack.
Installation of content filtering gateways and application layer firewalls at key boundaries in the architecture mitigates the risk of DoS attacks. These attacks can be detected by matching observed communications traffic with patterns of known attacks and monitoring for anomalies in traffic volume/type.
Detection components that use rate-based behavior analysis can detect attacks when signatures for the attack do not exist or are not installed. These attacks include zero-day attacks, which are new attacks for which vendors have not yet developed signatures. Rate-based behavior analysis can detect sophisticated, Distributed DoS (DDoS) attacks by correlating traffic information from multiple network segments or components.
This requirement applies to the communications traffic functionality of the ALG as it pertains to handling communications traffic, rather than to the ALG device itself.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>