ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the concept of denial-of-service threats, and more specifically, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) threats. It provides a brief discussion on the role of DDoS in the national American landscape viz-a-viz national security strategy and infrastructure. The role that the Department of Homeland Security plays in counteracting cybersecurity, and DDoS in particular, is fairly large in scope. The frequency and magnitude by which international actors deploy DDoS attacks on the United States progressively increase year-by-year. To prevent future attacks, the United States is taking both a proactive and responsive approach to the problem of DDoS on the US infrastructure. The chapter evaluates innovative techniques in the detection and prevention of DDoS attempts utilizing artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques. One manifestation of neural networks to detect incoming DDoS attacks is NLP neural networks, where a detection system scans social media networks.
