Automation of DDoS Attack Mitigation

The aim of this thesis is automation of DDoS attack mitigation. This thesis provides an overview of GNU/Linux network platforms and different approaches for their configuration. The aim is to select a platform that could be extended to automate DDoS mitigation. DDoS attack types are explained as well. Selected methods for DDoS mitigation are described in more detail such as Remote Triggered Black Hole and BGP Flowspec. Existing tools like DDoS Defender and FastNetMon are used to detect a DDoS attack. NETX was chosen as target implementation platform. To communicate with devices, API or BGP protocol with Flowspec extension are used