Attackers with enough resources will always be able to overload your equipment and render it unavailable.
Generally, hackers can use two strategies when carrying out these attacks: they can try to blindly overload the equipment or target a specific vulnerability in the network or system to bring it offline.Ĭyber security companies can conduct both DOS and DDOS penetration tests, however, there’s not much you can gain from DDOS testing. Yes, it is possible to check how well a server, network, or application can resist a DDOS attack by conducting DOS or DDOS testing as part of a pentest. The goal of both attacks is to make a system, network, server, or application unavailable to legitimate users due to its overload with packets. DDOS attacks are generally more dangerous than DOS. Essentially, DDOS attacks are a subset of DOS attacks. On the other hand, DDOS attacks are carried out by using multiple systems or devices to attack the server. During a DOS attack, only one device is used to send a large number of packets to the server.
