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Appendix F – Glossary
This glossary is a list of terms and definitions used in the Radware technical environment. Some of the words
belong to the public domain, and some are Radware-specific, but all are used in the Radware documentation.
A Radware glossary is intended to be a list of specialized words with their definitions that are used in the Radware
A Radware glossary is intended to be a list of specialized words with their definitions that are used in the Radware
technical environment. Some of the words belong to the public domain, and some are Radware-specific, but all
are used in the Radware documentation, whether hard-copy or online.
Table 183: Glossary Terms
Term
Definition
Anomaly
An anomaly is unusual or unexpected behavior of traffic patterns or a protocol.
Attack
An Attack, with an upper-case letter “A” is a realization of a threat, a malicious
action taken against a network, host, or service.
Attack List
An Attack List is a database of known attackers as defined in the
Signatures Database.
Attack Signature
Database
Radware’s
Attack signature database contains signatures of known attacks.
These signatures are included in the predefined groups and profiles supplied by
Radware to create protection policies in the Connect and Protect Table. Each attack
group consists of attack signatures with common characteristics intended to protect
a specific application or range of IP addresses.
Behavioral DoS (BDoS)
Behavioral DoS (Behavioral Denial of Service) protection defends networks from
zero day network-flood attacks that jam available network bandwidth with spurious
traffic, denying use of network resources for legitimate users.
BDoS profiles do this by identifying the footprint of the anomalous traffic. Network-
BDoS profiles do this by identifying the footprint of the anomalous traffic. Network-
flood protection types include:
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SYN Flood
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TCP Flood, including TCP Fin + Ack Flood, TCP Reset Flood
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TCP Syn + Ack Flood, TCP Fragmentation Flood
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UDP Flood
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ICMP Flood
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IGMP Flood
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