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Stateful Inspection Firewall Session Table Architecture and Timeouts
White Paper By analyzing existed timeout processing mechanism of Stateful Inspection, new session table architecture with dynamical timeouts is proposed. The new architecture can improve performances of both timeout processing and session entry updating. [26 Apr 2008]
Client-Controlled Slow TCP and Denial of Service
White Paper The study shows that the duration of a TCP connection could be extended tens of times without incurring timeout retransmission. This kind of trust has been exploited in some DoS attacks, such as SYN-flooding attack. [15 Jan 2008]
Low-Rate TCP-Targeted Denial of Service Attack Defense
White Paper Low-rate TCP targeted denial of service attacks are a subset of DoS attacks that exploit the Retransmission TimeOut (RTO) mechanism of TCP. In doing so, such an attack can drastically reduce throughput while producing little traffic relative to... [05 Dec 2007]
