DoS technique that overwhelms targets with massive volumes of traffic or connection requests.
Flooding attacks overwhelm targets with high volumes of traffic, connection requests, or data to exhaust bandwidth, processing capacity, or connection limits. Common flooding types include SYN floods (TCP connection requests), UDP floods (high-volume UDP packets), and HTTP floods (massive web requests). Flooding attacks are straightforward but effective—even legitimate traffic patterns become unavailable when resources are exhausted handling attack traffic.
Why It Matters
The DSC Perspective:
Flooding is the foundation of most DoS/DDoS attacks. Rate limiting, traffic filtering, and DDoS mitigation services help defend against flooding attacks targeting your infrastructure.