Denial of service

(DoS) This is a way to make the computers services and programmes unavailable to the owner of the computer. Denial of service prevents from providing service to customers, It is when they get an overwhelming number of people trying to access a site so the site then collapses. Attackers usually target high-profile places such as banks payment gateways, and some times root name servers. This method is used to prevent a web server from providing a service, this is done by overwhelming with allot of request, this makes it struggle and unable to cope. There are many reasons why these attacks are done, a reason may be because a criminal may want to blackmail a company and attack their site unless they hand over a ransom . 


To prevent this from happening there's a software programme called  'dotDefender', this programme controls and inspects your HTTP traffic, and frequently checks their packets against rules that allows or deny s protocols etc... The IP address is there to stop web application from being exposed. dofDefender is a very unique software that is created to teach users the specific threats that exist on the web application. The company and software that runs this programme specifically focuses on analyzing the impacts it has on the application.  The security on the web application is usually based with three powerful web application security engines.