Question

During a DoS incident, one possible containment strategy is to block the address the attacks are coming from. In addition, the organization may want to change its filtering strategy. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this approach

Answer 1

As their advantages and disadvantages of everything but filtering strategy is seems to be more advantages as it is a best idea to use this strategy as it also helps to protect your data from getting loss or been miss used.

Advantages:

1. Productivity:

By using the filter strategy as the company can ensure that the employees are been focusing on the work

rather than surfing to the other websites.

2. File sharing:

As usually the employees are been doing the online filer sharing softwares which can be risky for the

company as might be some important record pictures might get used in some illegal use.  

3- Wide Options:

As the filtering strategy is very helpful as the user have the now option to block particular websites so they

cannot be distracted while working.

  Disadvantages:

1. Limited Access:

​​​​​​​    As in business field this filtering is not feasible as this strategy made the user to browse in specific area and sometimes the user have to go out of the boundary but due to filtering it can not be open so on

sometimes it is not good.

2- Bad Use:

The filtering cannot completely restrict the whole thing as although some employees can do suffering on porn websites so the filtering can not completely block these websites.

3- Wrong Content Block:

  As sometimes the website that is not blocked but some image source is been linked to the blocked

website and it is important to see as it can be a graph or something important so at these points these

filtering strategy fails.

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