Tsunami SYN Flood Attack Protection

Tsunami SYN Flood Attack Protection

Radware’s Emergency Response Team (ERT) has detected a brand new technical attack technique that has the potential to challenge a vast majority of current security solutions. Of note, this new type of SYN flood attack:

• Has been witnessed numerous times in the wild and has been successfully stopped leveraging non-traditional protection mechanisms.
• Has been designed to quickly overwhelm BOTH defenses and systems within seconds.
• Differs from classic SYN flood attacks in three fundamental ways: data is contained within each packet; the length of each packet and thus overall attack size; and the network range involved.

To learn more about the exact characteristics of this attack, potentially affected technologies, and initial recommendations for protection please read the following ERT threat alert concerning the 2014 Tsunami SYN Flood Attack.