Classification of Network Attacks and Countermeasures of Different Attacks

Abstract

Network security has become more important and the growing rate of network attacks together with hacker, cracker, and criminal enterprises are increasing, that impact to the availability, confidentiality, and integrity of vital information data. In order to understand and defend against network attacks, it is necessary to understand the kind of attack. This chapter focuses on the provisioning of a method for the analysis and categorization of both computer and network attacks, thus providing assistance in combating new attacks, improving computer and network security as well as providing consistency in language when describing attacks. Attacks are thus attempts by unauthorized individuals to access or modify information, to deceive the system so that an unauthorized individual can take over an authorized session, or to disrupt service to authorized users. During this chapter we tend to area unit providing the elucidation against black hole attack that relies on fuzzy rule in case study section.