Author(s)

David Leal, Sanjeev Kumar

Cyber Security Research Lab, Department of Electrical/Computer Engineering, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, Texas, USA.

Nowadays many devices that make up a computer network are being equipped with security hardware and software features to prevent cyber security attacks. The idea is to distribute security features to intermediate systems in the network to mitigate the overall adverse effect of cyber attacks. In this paper, we will be focusing on the Juniper J4350 router with the Junos Software Enhanced, and it has security-attack protections in the router. We are going to evaluate how the Juniper router with built-in security protections affected the overall server performance under a cyber security attack.

Denial of Service (DOS) Attack, TCP/SYN Flood Attack, Policies, Trusted Zones, Untrusted Zones

Leal, D. and Kumar, S. (2019) Can Routers Provide Sufficient Protection against Cyber Security Attacks?. Journal of Information Security, 10, 302-310. doi: 10.4236/jis.2019.104017.