Detection of denial of service attacks

Master's thesis is focused on intrusion detection for denied of service attacks. These distributed DoS attacks are threat for all users on the Internet, so there is deployment of intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems against these attacks. The theoretical part describes the DoS attacks and its variants used most frequently. It also mentioned variants for detecting DoS attacks. There is also described, which tools are used to detect DDoS attacks most frequently. The practical part deals with the deployment of software tools for detecting DDoS attacks, and create traffic to test detection abilities of these tools