Theses and Dissertations - UTB/UTPA
Date of Award
5-2010
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Electrical Engineering
First Advisor
Dr. Sanjeev Kumar
Second Advisor
Dr. Yul Chu
Third Advisor
Dr. Weidong Kuang
Abstract
In this thesis, experimental evaluation of security vulnerabilities has been performed under DoS attacks for popular personal firewalls from McAfee, Norton and Kaspersky; and for operating systems namely Apple’s Leopard and SnowLeopard, and Microsoft’s Windows XP and Windows 7. Our experimental results show that the firewalls and operating systems behave differently under a given DoS attack. Some of the firewalls crashed under certain DoS attacks especially when they were configured to prevent and block packets belonging to such attacks. Operating systems evaluated in this thesis were also found to have different built-in security capabilities, and some of them even crashed under certain DoS attacks requiring forced reboot of the system. Comparative performance of firewalls and operating systems under DoS attacks has been presented.
Granting Institution
University of Texas-Pan American
Comments
Copyright 2010 Sirisha Surisetty. All Rights Reserved.
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