Exploring Blockchain in Collaborative DDoS Mitigation
Shikha Garg, Sonia Goyal, Abhinav Bhandari · 2024
This paper explores how blockchain technology can enhance collaborative Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation strategies. As DDoS attacks become more complex and widespread, traditional mitigation approaches often require revision, underscoring the necessity for innovative solutions. The study explores how blockchain’s inherent characteristics—decentralization, transparency, and immutability—can be leveraged to create a robust, trust-based environment for sharing threat intelligence and coordinating defense mechanisms across multiple organizations. We will examine blockchain’s potential to facilitate real-time information exchange, improve attack detection, and enable coordinated responses among participating entities of collaborative ddos mitigation. The research will also address the security analysis of collaborative DDoS mitigation framework such as Decentralization, Hash based Threat Intelligence, SDN controller for load balancing, automated mitigation using smart contract. We will explore blockchain-based approaches’ potential benefits, limitations, and feasibility in DDoS mitigation through a literature review, theoretical analysis, and conceptual modeling. The findings of this study are expected to contribute significantly to the field of cybersecurity.