SkyShield: A Sketch-Based Defense System Against Application Layer DDoS Attacks

Application layer distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have become a severe threat to the security of web servers. These attacks evade most intrusion prevention systems by sending numerous benign HTTP requests. Since most of these attacks are launched abruptly and severely, a fast intrusion prevention system is desirable to detect and mitigate these attacks as soon as possible. In this paper, we propose an effective defense system, named...