Counteracting Network Distributed Attacks: An Intelligent Approach to Minimise the TCP/IP Protocol Threats using Agents Technology

Today, communications, information networks, e-Commerce, e-Education, and all other e-Services and infrastructures tend to play a major role in our daily life and global economy. Nowadays, in modern society, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is the force that drives productivity and creates a higher standard of living. The growing dependence on such systems, however, increased their vulnerability to cyber vigilantism. Any failure to these systems typically would lead to a huge impact, not only on businesses, but also human life that rely on biomedical networks. The growing potential for telecommunications network infrastructures problems stems from their nature of openness. A successful attempt for a network attack to a particular network could have devastating effects on the Organisation security. In this paper we propose an innovative way to counteract TCP/IP protocol network attacks such as Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks using Fuzzy Logic intelligent scheme.