@inproceedings{7beffed76d0a486d9cf6dc00760dfcd3,
title = "Motives behind ddos attacks",
abstract = "Behind everything we do in our daily lives there is a reason for doing it. This paper looks into the motives behind DDoS attacks as a form of cyberattack along with attacker personas. This paper also investigates DDoS attacks technically and it is suggested that there is a need for a socio-technical approach to these attacks to investigate why they occur and the reasoning the attacker(s) could have for launching these attacks. This paper finds several motives behind DDoS attacks and discusses the profiles that attackers can be sorted into. Also discussed are the motives that attacker profiles can have for launching DDoS attacks. Although mitigation techniques are in place to control the damage a DDoS attack can cause to a company, if the motives can be addressed first, these attacks could be prevented. With the use of case studies, visualisations and tables, the motives behind DDoS attacks and attacker personas are presented.",
keywords = "Cyberattacks, DDoS attacks, Motives, Profiles, Socio-technical",
author = "Scott Traer and Peter Bednar",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.; Annual Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS , 2019 ; Conference date: 27-09-2019 Through 28-09-2019",
year = "2020",
month = nov,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-47539-0\_10",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030475383",
series = "Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
pages = "135--147",
editor = "Concetta Metallo and Maria Ferrara and Alessandra Lazazzara and Stefano Za",
booktitle = "Digital Transformation and Human Behavior- Innovation for People and Organisations",
address = "United Kingdom",
}