Denial of Service
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Definitions
National Definitions
Liberia
Denial-of-service attack: Flooding the networks or servers of individuals or organizations with false data requests so they are unable to respond to requests from legitimate users. [1]
United States
DHS
Denial of Service is an attack that prevents or impairs the authorized use of information system resources or services. [2]
Distributed denial of service is a Denial of Service technique that uses numerous systems to perform the attack simultaneously. [2]
NIST
Denial of Service: Actions that prevent the system from functioning in accordance with its intended purpose (from: NIST SP 800-24) [3]
Denial of Service: The prevention of authorized access to resources or the delaying of time-critical operations. (Time-critical may be milliseconds or it may be hours, depending upon the service provided) (from: NIST SP 800-27 Rev A) [3]
Denial of Service: The prevention of authorized access to resources or the delaying of time-critical operations. (from: NIST SP 800-33) [3]
