Information, Computer and Network Security Terms Glossary and Dictionary

 

DoS: Denial of Service

Denial of Service (Dos) is the prevention of authorized access to a system resource or the delaying of system operations and functions. DoS happens when network bandwidth or computational resource is exausted by authorized usage or by people launching DoS attacks.

 

 


Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)

Related Terms

IP Spoofing, TCP/IP network vulnerability ,

Reference Links

http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/denial_of_service.html: Denial of Service