GCD : A Global Collaborative Defense Approach to Thwart Internet Attacks

With the tremendous growth in the dependence of services on the Internet, service disruption has become less and less tolerable. The greatest threat to service availability is the rapid growth in the complexity and frequency of large-scale distributed attacks. These attacks cause economic losses due to unavailability of services and potentially serious security concerns by the incapacitation of critical infrastructures. Despite the tremendous attention by the research community to find distributed attack countermeasures, a practical and comprehensive solution is yet to see the light of the day. In this research, the authors present a research direction aimed at finding a solution to the above problem.