CHAPTER
11-1
Cisco SCE 2000 and SCE 1000 Software Configuration Guide
OL-7827-12
11
Identifying and Preventing
Distributed-Denial-Of-Service Attacks
Revised: June 15, 2009, OL-7827-12
Introduction
This chapter describes the ability of the SCE platform to identify and prevent DDoS attacks, and the
various procedures for configuring and monitoring the Attack Filter Module.
• Attack Filtering and Attack Detection, page 11-1
• Configuring Attack Detectors, page 11-7
• Configuring Subscriber Notifications, page 11-18
• Preventing and Forcing Attack Detection, page 11-19
• Monitoring Attack Filtering, page 11-21
Attack Filtering and Attack Detection
• Attack Filtering, page 11-2
• Specific Attack Filtering, page 11-2
• Attack Detection, page 11-3
• Attack Detection Thresholds, page 11-4
• Attack Handling, page 11-5
• Hardware Filtering, page 11-6