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Winny
Newcomer I

Types of Availability Attacks

I have just completed Domain 1: Security Principles and there was 1 practice question I got wrong:

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Understand why Ransomware can be an Availability attack, but can anyone help explain why DDoS is not an Availability attack? From my understanding DOS attacks basically spam a server with traffic to make it crash and prevent availability of data for legitimate users?

 

Thank you very much

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Steve-Wilme
Advocate II

It's not a fantastic question, but often ISC2 are looking for the most correct answer.  In this case ransomware directly targets data, whereas a DDoS overloads infrastructure.  

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Steve Wilme CISSP-ISSAP, ISSMP MCIIS
Winny
Newcomer I

Thank you so much!