Some Common Ways Attacks Avoid Detection

Here are some common ways attackers avoid detection while they are attacking your organization systems:

• Log flooding
• Using logging mechanism
• Attacking detection mechanism
• Using fragmentation attacks
• Using canonicalization attacks
• Using decoys

Here are some common ways attackers can use fragmentation against your system:

• Session splicing attacks
• Packets fragmentation attacks
• Fragmentation time-out attacks

Adopted from the book Assessing Network Security by Ben Smith, David LeBlanc, Kevin Lam.