Security
Denial of Service Prevention
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STEP 1 Click Security > Denial of Service Prevention > Security Suite Settings. The 
Security Suite Settings displays.
CPU Protection Mechanism: Enabled indicates that SCT is enabled. 
STEP  2 Click Details beside CPU Utilization to go to the CPU Utilization page and view 
CPU resource utilization information.
STEP  3 Click Edit beside TCP SYN Protection to go to the SYN Protection page and 
enable this feature.
STEP  4 Select DoS Prevention to enable the feature.
• Disable—Disable the feature.
• System-Level Prevention—Enable that part of the feature that prevents 
attacks from Stacheldraht Distribution, Invasor Trojan, and Back Orifice 
Trojan.  
STEP  5 If System-Level Prevention or System-Level and Interface-Level Prevention is 
selected, enable one or more of the following DoS Prevention options: 
• Stacheldraht Distribution—Discards TCP packets with source TCP port 
equal to 16660.
• Invasor Trojan—Discards TCP packets with destination TCP port equal to 
2140 and source TCP port equal to 1024.
• Back Orifice Trojan—Discards UDP packets with destination UDP port 
equal to 31337 and source UDP port equal to 1024.
STEP  6 Click Apply. The Denial of Service prevention Security Suite settings are written to 
the Running Configuration file.
• If Interface-Level Prevention is selected, click the appropriate Edit button to 
configure the desired prevention.