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Project Description

Mitigating IoT-based Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS)

Date Published: November 2017

Author(s)

W. Polk (NIST), Murugiah Souppaya (NIST), William Haag (NIST), William Barker (Dakota Consulting)

Abstract

Keywords

botnets; internet of things (IoT); Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD); router; server; software update server; threat signaling
Control Families

None selected

Documentation

Publication:
Project Description (pdf)

Supplemental Material:
Project Homepage

Related NIST Publications:
SP 1800-15 (Draft)
SP 1800-15

Document History:
10/12/17: Project Description (Draft)
12/14/17: Project Description (Final)

Topics

Security and Privacy

botnets

Technologies

networks

Applications

Internet of Things, small & medium business