Implementation of Web Server Security Against Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks

Abstract

Denial of Service (DoS) is one of the top cyber-attacks that grows exponentially attacking every company, agency, and organization with a percentage of 43%. This type of attack has the most damage to business operations and affects globally. By flooding the bandwidth or resources of a machine or system, attackers deny it so that legitimate users cannot access the service. The objectives of this study are: 1. Creating a security system on a web server against Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that are applied to containerization architecture. 2. Implementation of load balancing methods for securing the web server from Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. 3. Implementing the deployment process and monitoring the web server in the containerization architecture. The results of comparisons and testing of services carried out with denial of service attacks prove that the memory load used by a web server with containerization architecture is less than that of conventional web servers. Testing was also carried out on hardware performance, namely CPU. Conventional web servers are heavier by up to touching 0.00015% compared to web servers with the highest containerization architecture, only touching 0.00010%.