3 Types of Network Attacks to Watch Out For

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3 Types of Network Attacks to Watch Out For
September 22, 2019
https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/vulnerability-management/3-types-of-network-attacks/

Cybersecurity is becoming more of a common tongue term in today’s industry. It is being passed around the executive meetings along with financial information and projected marketing strategies. Here are some common attack vectors plaguing the industry when it comes to network infrastructure. It does not really matter the infrastructure type you have. If there is value to the data you are transferring within, someone wants to get it.
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1. Reconnaissance Attacks
Reconnaissance attacks are general knowledge gathering attacks. These attacks can happen in both logical and physical approaches. Whether the information is gathered via probing the network or through social engineering and physical surveillance, these attacks can be preventable as well.
2. Access Attacks
Access attacks require some sort of intrusion capability. These can consist of anything as simple as gaining an account holder’s credentials to plugging foreign hardware directly into the network infrastructure. The sophistication of these attacks ranges just as far.
3. Denial of Service Attacks
Denial of service means that the network cannot move traffic in any capacity. This can happen from power failure or flooding the network with junk traffic that clogs the network’s ability to function. Both historically have happened without any malicious intent, and both can be prevented with physical and logical blockers.
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