A Study of Common Network Attacks and Their Prevention Techniques
Kunal, Rimmy Chhabra, Prince, Raghav Aggarwal
As internet-connected systems grow in their number, network security has become an urgent issue for both organizations and institutions as well as for individuals, thus promoting the need for available and feasible defense options. Although there are several studies which focus on different types of attack (DoS, phishing, SQL injection), there is a lack of a simple, easy-to-learn framework that would cover several attack types from a technical and human-centric perspective. The study of this paper involves literature review of the five common network attacks which are Denial of Service (DoS/DDoS), Man-in-the-Middle (MITM), Phishing, Packet Sniffing and SQL Injection, and also a hands-on experiment of SQL Injection attack using Oracle APEX and its prevention using parameterized queries has been carried out. The result indicates that a three-layered Layered Prevention Framework (LPF) including Awareness Layer, Technical Layer and Monitoring Layer is proposed which will provide a scalable and cost-effective solution to protect the network against the common cyber threats. Keywords: Network Security, Cyber Attacks, DoS, MITM, Phishing, SQL Injection, Intrusion Detection, Layered Prevention Framework, Oracle APEX