Manual Chapter : Managing DoS Profiles in Shared Security

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7.1.0

Managing DoS Profiles in Shared Security

About DoS profiles

denial-of-service attack (DoS attack)

makes a victim's resource unavailable to its intended users, or obstructs the communication media between the intended users and the victimized site so that they can no longer communicate adequately. Perpetrators of DoS attacks typically target sites or services, such as banks, credit card payment gateways, and e-commerce web sites.

Using Shared Security, you can configure DoS profiles to help prevent network, SIP, and DNS DoS and DDoS attacks, and to detect and protect against DoS (Denial of Service) attacks aimed at the resources that are used for serving the application (the web server, web framework, and the application logic).

You can monitor DoS profiles using the

Monitoring

EVENTS

DoS

screens, and DDoS attack data using the

Monitoring

DASHBOARDS

DDoS

screens.

DoS profile considerations when deploying to BIG-IP device clusters

In some cases, deploying a configuration containing a DoS profile from BIG-IQ Centralized Management to a BIG-IP device cluster can cause the cluster to become unsynchronized. If that occurs, manually synchronize the BIG-IP device cluster. Then, reimport the BIG-IP system configuration to BIG-IQ Centralized Management, and select

Use BIG-IP

system as the operation to resolve any differences.

DoS profile considerations when managing multiple BIG-IP device versions

You use BIG-IQ Centralized Management to manage multiple BIG-IP devices which can have multiple versions. In most cases, this is handled seamlessly. However, in certain cases, objects differ significantly between BIG-IP device versions, and these objects require special handling when shared between BIG-IP device versions.

Address lists in DoS profiles

DoS profiles that have address lists configured cannot be shared between BIG-IP devices that are version 12.1 or earlier and BIG-IP devices that are version 13.0 or later.

Whitelists in DoS profiles

DoS profiles that have whitelists configured cannot be shared between BIG-IP devices that are version 12.1 or earlier and BIG-IP devices that are version 13.0 or later. In the BIG-IQ Centralized Management DoS Profile, you configure whitelists differently, based on the BIG-IP device version you are managing.

To use a DoS profile to manage a BIG-IP device version 12.1 or earlier, select a whitelist value using the

IP Address Whitelist

setting on the DoS Profile Application Security Properties screen.

To use a DoS profile to manage a BIG-IP device version 13.0 or later, select a whitelist value using the

HTTP Whitelist

setting on the DoS Profile Properties screen.

Do not select a value for both the

HTTP Whitelist

and the

IP Address Whitelist

settings in the same DoS profile.

Create DoS profiles

You can create a DoS profile and configure the circumstances under which the system considers traffic to be a DoS attack, and how the system handles a DoS attack.

Click

Configuration

SECURITY

Shared Security

DoS Protection

DoS Profiles

In the DoS Profiles screen, click

Create

In the New DoS Profile screen, add and set the properties as appropriate.

In the

Name

setting, specify a unique name for the DoS profile.

In the

Create from template

setting, you can select pre-defined settings for Application Security:

Select

Default

to enable general recommended settings for all required fields in Application Security.

Select

BADoS Support 14.1.x

to enable recommended settings for all required fields in Behavioral & Stress-based Detection.

Behavioral & Stress-based Detection template settings are recommended settings for BIG-IP versions 14.1 or later. This is not recommended for profiles attached to earlier BIG-IP versions.

This template is only meant for DoS profiles on device version 14.1 or later. The template includes transparent protection against detected attacks.

in the

Description

setting, specify an optional description for the DoS profile.

In the

Partition

setting, specify the partition to which the DoS profile belongs. You can replace the default

Common

partition when creating DoS profiles by typing a unique name for a new partition.

The partition with that name must already exist on the BIG-IP device. No whitespace is allowed in the partition name.

In the

Application Templates

setting, select whether the policy is available to application templates. To make this policy available to application templates, select

Make available in Application Templates

In the

Threshold Sensitivity

setting, specify the threshold sensitivity for the DoS profile. Thresholds for detecting attacks are higher when sensitivity is

Low

, and lower when sensitivity is

High

This property is not used with the Application Security protection type.

In the

Source IP Address Whitelist

setting, specify the configuration of the Source IP address white list.

This property is not used with the Application Security protection type.

In the

HTTP Whitelist

setting, specify the HTTP whitelist to use.

This setting is applied only to BIG-IP devices version 13.0, or later.

Select and enable the one or more DoS protection types you want to use from the list on the left.

Application Security	Click Application Security Properties , then select the Application Security check box, Enabled . When enabled, this protects your web application against DoS attacks. Your virtual server must include an HTTP profile to use this feature. Supply or modify any necessary property values.
Protocol DNS	Click Protocol DNS , then select the Protocol DNS Protection check box, Enabled . When enabled, this protects your DNS server against DoS attacks. Note that your virtual server must include a DNS profile to work with this feature. Supply or modify any necessary property values.
Protocol SIP	Click Protocol SIP , then select the Protocol SIP Protection check box, Enabled . When enabled, this protects against SIP DoS attacks. Note that your virtual server must include a SIP profile to work with this feature.
Network	Click Network , then select the Network Protection check box, Enabled . When enabled, this protects your server against network DoS attacks. Supply or modify any necessary property values.

When you are finished, save your work.

The new DoS profile is added to the list of profiles.

Configure for application security

Your virtual server must include an HTTP profile to use the application security feature.

You can configure the conditions under which the system determines that your application is under a DoS attack, and how the system reacts to a suspected attack.

For application security it is recommended to configure only one DoS profile per application.

Click

Configuration

SECURITY

Shared Security

DoS Protection

DoS Profiles

In the DoS Profiles screen, click the profile name to configure.

On the left, click

Application Security

to expand the list.

Click

Properties

to display the General Settings screen and configure the application security general settings.

In the

Application Security

setting, select

Enabled

to use application security protection and display additional properties.

In the

IP Address Whitelist

setting, specify the IP addresses that the system considers legitimate and does not examine when performing DoS prevention.

To add an IP address to the whitelist, type it in the upper field, and click

Add

. The IP address is added to the whitelist in the lower field.

To delete an IP address from the whitelist, select the IP address from the whitelist in the lower field, and click

Remove

Apply this setting only to BIG-IP devices earlier than version 13.0.

In the

Geolocations

setting, specify that you want to override the DoS profile's Geolocation Detection Criteria threshold settings by selecting countries from which to allow or block traffic during a DoS attack.

To allow traffic from a country, select the country and move it to the Geolocation Whitelist.

To block traffic from a country, select the country and move it to the Geolocation Blacklist.

In the

Trigger iRule

setting, enable this setting if you have an iRule that manages DoS events in a customized manner.

In the

Single Page Application

setting, enable this setting if your website is a single page application.

In the

URL Patterns

setting, configure the URL patterns to be used. Each URL pattern defines a set of URLs which are logically the same URL with the varying part of the pattern acting as a parameter, such as

/product/*php

To add the URL pattern to the list, type the URL pattern and click

Add

To remove the URL pattern from the list, select the pattern from the URL Patterns list, and click

Remove

In the

Traffic Scrubbing

setting, enable this setting if you want traffic scrubbing enabled during attacks by advertising BGP routes. This feature requires configuration of a scrubber profile. Change the

Advertisement Duration

value if needed.

In the

RTBH

setting, enable this setting if you want to have remotely triggered black hole (RTBH) filtering of attacking BGP IPs by advertising BGP routes. This feature requires configuration of the blacklist publisher. Change the

Advertisement Duration

value if needed.

In the

Performance Acceleration

setting, configure whether performance acceleration should be used.

To not use performance acceleration, select

None

To use performance acceleration, select the TCP fastL4 profile to be used as the fast-path for acceleration.

To use the Proactive Bot Defense screen to configure those settings, click

Proactive Bot Defense

Property	Description
Operation Mode	Specifies the conditions under which the system detects and blocks bots. Select Off , During Attacks , or Always . If Off is selected, no other settings are displayed on this tab.
Block requests from suspicious browsers	Strengthens the bot defense by blocking suspicious browsers. By default, the system completely blocks highly suspicious browsers and uses CAPTCHA challenges for moderately suspicious browsers. Select the Block Suspicious Browsers check box to enable or disable blocking of suspicious browsers. Select the CAPTCHA Challenge check box to enable or disable issuing a challenge. Click CAPTCHA Response Settings to select the responses to use.
Grace Period	Specifies time in seconds for the system to validate that browsers are not bots. During this period, the system does not block requests that were not validated. Modify the number or click Reset to Default to reset the value.
Cross-Domain Requests	You can add additional security by allowing only configured domains to reference resources of the site. From the list, select an option. You can also configure domains after selecting one of the Cross-Domain Requests options.
Related Site Domains	Specifies the domains that are part of the web site and protected by Proactive Bot Defense. Add domains by typing a domain in the text box and clicking Add . Remove a domain by selecting it and clicking Remove .
Related External Domains	Specifies the external domains (those not part of your web site) that are allowed to reference resources in your website. Add domains by typing a domain in the field and clicking Add . Remove a domain by selecting it in the text box and clicking Remove .
URL Whitelist	Specifies URLs that are not blocked by Proactive Bot Defense. Requests may still be blocked by the TPS-based / Stress-based attack mitigation. Add URLs to the whitelist by typing a URL in the text box and clicking Add . Remove a URL by selecting it and clicking Remove .

To use the Bot Signatures screen to configure those settings, click

Bot Signatures

Property	Description
Bot Signature Check	Select Enabled to display settings. You cannot disable the Bot Signature Check property while Proactive Bot Detection , TPS-based Detection with By Device ID selected, or Stress-based Detection with By Device ID selected, is enabled. To disable the Bot Signature Check property, you must first disable the previously listed properties. Alternatively, rather than disabling all bot signature checking by disabling Bot Signature Check , you can disable categories of bot signatures individually.
Malicious Categories and Benign Categories	These two category lists are handled similarly. For either category, select None , Report , or Block . That setting is then applied to all the listed items in the category. The categories can also be individually changed to another value. If you change them individually, the value for the Malicious Categories or Benign Categories changes to Custom Configuration . A user cannot set all categories to None and keep Proactive Bot Defense enabled.
Disabled Bot Signatures	Specifies bot signatures that are available and disabled. Use the arrow buttons to move bot signatures between the Available Signatures list and the Disabled Signatures list.

To configure how mobile applications built with the Anti-Bot Mobile SDK are detected and to define how requests from mobile application clients are handled, click

Mobile Applications

Property	Description
Mobile App Protection	Select whether to enable mobile application DoS protection. Select Enabled to enable configuration of mobile application DoS protection. When enabled, requests from mobile applications built with the Anti-Bot Mobile SDK will be detected and handled according to the settings. Do not select Enabled to have mobile application requests handled without DoS protection.
iOS	Specify the settings for iOS mobile applications. To allow traffic on any iOS package, select Allow Any Package Name . A package name is the unique identifier of the mobile application, such as com.f5.app1 . To allow traffic from jailbroken iOS devices, select Allow Jailbroken Devices . To allow traffic on specified packages, enter the iOS package names to allow, and click Add . To remove a package from the list, select the package and click Remove . This option is not available if you have chosen Allow Any Package Name . When set, all other packages will be blocked with the mobile application response page text.
Android	Specify the settings for Android mobile applications. To allow any application publisher, select Allow Any Publisher . A publisher is identified by the certificate used to sign the application. To allow traffic from rooted Android devices, select Allow Rooted Devices . To allow traffic on specified packages, select publisher certificates from the Available publisher certificate list, and move them to the Assigned publisher certificates list. All other certificates will be blocked with the mobile application response page text. This option is not available if you have chosen Allow Any Publisher .
Advanced	Specify advanced handling of requests from mobile applications. When a CAPTCHA or client side integrity challenge needs to be presented, select the action to take. To have the traffic passed without incident, select Always passed . To have the traffic challenged for human behavior, select Challenged for human behavior . When selected, the SDK checks for human interactions with the screen in the last few seconds. If none are detected, the traffic is blocked. To allow traffic from applications that are run on emulators, select Allow Emulators .

To configure settings for the detection of DoS attacks based on a high volume of incoming traffic, click

TPS-based Detection

Property	Description
Operation Mode	Specifies how the system reacts when it detects an attack, and can be Off , Transparent , or Blocking . If set to Off , no other properties are shown.
Thresholds Mode	Specifies how thresholds are configured. To configure each mitigation behavior threshold manually, select Manual . To use the system default mitigation threshold settings, select Automatic . Your Thresholds Mode selection affects which threshold options are available in the other sections on this screen.
By Source IP	Specifies the criteria that determine when the system treats the IP address as an attacker, and the mitigation method to be used for the attacking IP address.
By Device ID	Specifies the criteria that determine when the system treats the device ID as an attacker, and the mitigation method to be used for the attacking device.
By Geolocation	Specifies the criteria that determine when the system treats the geolocation as an attacker, and the mitigation method to be used for the attacking geolocation. The settings exclude blacklisted and whitelisted geolocations.
By URL	Specifies the criteria that determine when the system treats the URL as an attacker, and the mitigation method to be used for the attacking URL. Heavy URL Protection can also be enabled, but needs to be configured. Click the Click to configure link next to the option to do so.
Site Wide	Specifies the criteria that determine when the system determines an entire website is under attack, and the mitigation method to be used.
Prevention Duration	Specifies the time spent in each mitigation step before moving (escalating or de-escalating) to the next mitigation step.

To configure settings for the detection of DoS attacks based on server stress, click

Behavioral and Stress-based Detection

By default, enabling Application Security under General Settings automatically populates all required fields for Behavioral and Stress-based Detection. You can customize the default configuration using the properties described in the table below.

Property	Description
Operation Mode	Specifies how the system reacts when it detects a stress-based attack, and can be Off , Transparent or Blocking . If set to Off , no other properties are shown.
Thresholds Mode	Specifies how thresholds are configured. To configure each mitigation behavior threshold manually, select Manual . To use the system default mitigation threshold settings, select Automatic . Your Thresholds Mode selection affects which threshold options are available in the other sections on this screen.
By Source IP	Specifies the criteria that determine when the system treats the IP address as an attacker, and the mitigation method to be used for the attacking IP address.
By Device ID	Specifies the criteria that determine when the system treats the device ID as an attacker, and the mitigation method to be used for the attacking device.
By Geolocation	Specifies the criteria that determine when the system treats the geolocation as an attacker, and the mitigation method to be used for the attacking geolocation. The settings exclude blacklisted and whitelisted geolocations.
By URL	Specifies the criteria that determine when the system treats the URL as an attacker, and the mitigation method to be used for the attacking URL. Heavy URL Protection can also be enabled, but needs to be configured. Click the Click to configure link next to the option to do so.
Site Wide	Specifies the criteria that determine when the system determines an entire website is under attack, and the mitigation method to be used.
Behavioral Detection and Mitigation	Specifies the mitigation behavior, and when enabled, the selected level of mitigation to use. For the Bad actors behavior detection setting, select Enabled to perform traffic behavior, server capacity learning, and anomaly detection. For the Request signatures detection setting, select Enabled to perform signature detection. Select Use approved signatures only to use only approved signatures. For the Mitigation setting, select the type of mitigation to be used. Review the description of each mitigation type to select the best one for your environment,
Prevention Duration	Specifies the time spent in each mitigation step before moving (escalating or de-escalating) to the next mitigation step.

To configure settings for protecting heavy URLs during DoS attacks, click

Heavy URL Protection

Heavy URLs are those which have a potential to cause stress on the server, even with a low TPS count.

Property	Description
Automatic Detection	Select Enabled to automatically detect heavy URLs of the application, in addition to the URLs entered manually.
Heavy URLs	You can configure a list of heavy URLs to protect in addition to the automatically detected ones. Type a URL in the top field, and click Add . Optionally, for a BIG-IP device version 13.0 or later, enter a threshold value. To remove a URL from the list, select the URL from the text box, and click Remove
Ignored URLs	You can configure a list of URLs that are excluded from automatic detection as heavy URLs. The system supports wildcards. Type a URL in the top field, and click Add . To remove a URL from the list, select the URL from the text box, and click Remove
Latency Threshold	If Automatic Detection is enabled, set the Latency Threshold setting to be the number of milliseconds for the system to use as the threshold for automatically detecting heavy URLs. The default value is 1000 milliseconds. Click Reset to Default to reset the value to 1000.

To define the responses to use when issuing a challenge, click

CAPTCHA Response Settings

The exact format of a response body differs depending on the version of the BIG-IP device. Test and verify that any custom response you create works with your installed BIG-IP version.

For the

First Response Type

, select

Default

to use the default response, or select

Custom

to create your own first response body by entering it into the

First Response Body

area.

Here is an example first response body:

This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submission.
<br>
%DOSL7.captcha.image% %DOSL7.captcha.change%
<br>
<b>What code is in the image?</b>
%DOSL7.captcha.solution%
<br>
%DOSL7.captcha.submit%
<br>
<br>
Your support ID is: %DOSL7.captcha.support_id%

For the

Failure Response Type

, select

Default

to use the default response or select

Custom

to create your own failure response body by entering it into the

Failure Response Body

area.

Here is an example failure response body:

You have entered an invalid answer for the question. Please, try again.
<br>
%DOSL7.captcha.image% %DOSL7.captcha.change%
<br>
<b>What code is in the image?</b>
%DOSL7.captcha.solution%
<br>
%DOSL7.captcha.submit%
<br>
<br>
Your support ID is: %DOSL7.captcha.support_id%

Click

Record Traffic

to configure settings for the recording of traffic (by performing a TCP dump) when a DoS attack is underway, to diagnose the attack vectors and attackers, observe whether and how it was mitigated, and draw conclusions for changing the DoS profile configuration.

You can record traffic and collect the TCP dump files into the QuickView file so that F5 Support can use it for solving customer cases. The files have a

pcap

extension and are located in this path on the BIG-IP device:

/shared/dosl7/tcpdumps

Property	Description
Record Traffic During Attacks	Controls whether traffic recording is used. The default is disabled and causes other properties to be hidden. Note that the system records SSL traffic encrypted. Select Enabled to specify that the system record traffic when a DoS attack is underway, and display settings.
Maximum TCP Dump Duration	Specifies the maximum time, in seconds, for one dump cycle. Legal values are between 1 and 300. The default is 30 seconds.
Maximum TCP Dump Size	Specifies the maximum size, in MB, for a dump cycle. Legal values are between 1 and 50. The default is 10 MB.
TCP Dump Repetition	Specifies whether the system performs one dump, or multiple dumps, for each DoS attack.

Save your work.

The settings are incorporated into the DoS profile.

Configure for protocol DNS security

You can configure the conditions under which the system determines that your DNS server is under a DoS attack.

Click

Configuration

SECURITY

Shared Security

DoS Protection

DoS Profiles

In the DoS Profiles screen, click the profile name you want to configure.

On the left, click

Protocol DNS Security

to display the Properties screen.

On the Properties screen, select the

Enabled

check box for

Protocol DNS Protection

To enable

Protocol Errors Attack Detection

, select the

Enabled

check box.

This setting is ignored when deploying to BIG-IP devices with version 13.0 or later. When the configuration with this setting is changed and then evaluated, the setting will show as a difference until the configuration is re-imported from the BIG-IP device.

Specify the adjustable settings as necessary for your configuration.

The system saves settings as you enter them.

In the

Rate increased by

setting, specify that the system considers traffic to be an attack if the rate of requests increases above this number.

By default, the system calculates this number every hour, and updates it every minute. The default is 500 percent.

In the

Rate threshold

setting, specify the number of packets per second that must be exceeded to indicate to the system that there is an attack.

The default is 250,000 packets per second.

In the

Rate limit

setting, specify the limit in packets per second.

The default is 2,500,000 packets per second.

In the

Enforcement

setting in the Dynamic Signatures area, select the enforcement state for dynamic signatures. This setting is only available for BIG-IP devices version 13.1 or later.

To enable enforcement of dynamic DoS vectors, select

Enabled

. When enforcement is enabled, all thresholds and threshold actions are applied. Enabling enforcement causes additional options to be displayed.

To apply no action or thresholds to dynamic vectors, select

Disabled

To track dynamic vector statistics, without enforcing any thresholds or limits, select

Learn-Only

In the

Mitigation Sensitivity

setting in the Dynamic Signatures area, specify the mitigation sensitivity for dynamic signatures (

None

Low

Medium

, or

High

At the bottom of the screen, review the list of known attack types and their current settings in the summary table.

Threshold Mode

specifies how thresholds are set for this vector.

Fully Automatic

indicates that automatic thresholds are used to mitigate DDoS attacks based on server stress.

Manual Detection/Auto Mitigation

indicates that you set thresholds manually. However, the system also automatically examines server stress, and mitigates the attack vector if the server is stressed.

Fully Manual

indicates that you configure parameters for DoS vector detection and rate limiting manually. The system mitigates the attack vector based on the threshold values you set.

Detection Threshold EPS

specifies how many packets per second the system must discover in traffic in order to detect this attack.

Detection Threshold Percent

specifies the threshold percent the system must discover in traffic in order to detect this attack.

Mitigation Threshold EPS

specifies the maximum number of this type of packet per second the system allows for a vector. The system drops packets once the traffic level exceeds the rate limit.

Bad Actor Detection

specifies that Bad Actor detection is enabled. This appears only for non-error packets and non sweep/flood packets. Bad actor detection allows automatic detection, logging, and rate limiting of specific IP addresses that appear to be the source of an attack, based on criteria you configure.

Add Source Address to Category

specifies that the source IP address be added to the blacklist category assigned to the DoS vector.

Customize attack types individually, as needed:

Click the name of the attack type to open the properties screen for it.

On the attack type properties screen, select the

State

for how to enforce protection for the attack type.

Mitigate

indicates watch, learn, alert, and mitigate protection is used.

Detect Only

indicates watch, learn, and alert protection is used.

Learn Only

indicates that stats should be collected with no mitigation.

Disabled

indicates that there should be no stat collection and no mitigation.

Selecting a state determines which detection settings are displayed.

Supply values for the properties displayed to configure the protection for the attack type.

Click

Refer to the BIG-IP system documentation,

BIG-IP Systems: DoS Protection and Protocol Firewall Implementations

, for information on each attack type.

Save your work.

Configure for protocol SIP security

Your virtual server must include a SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) profile to configure protocol SIP security in the DoS profile.

You can configure the conditions under which the system determines that your server, running SIP, is under a DoS attack.

Click

Configuration

SECURITY

Shared Security

DoS Protection

DoS Profiles

In the DoS Profiles screen, click the profile name you want to configure.

On the left, click

Protocol SIP Security

to display the Protocol SIP Security Properties screen.

On the Properties screen, select the

Enabled

check box for

Protocol SIP Protection

The screen displays additional properties.

To enable

Protocol Errors Attack Detection

, select the

Enabled

check box.

Specify the adjustable settings as necessary for your configuration.

The system saves settings as you enter them.

Setting	Description
Rate increased by	Specifies that the system considers traffic to be an attack if the rate of requests increases greater than this number. The system calculates this number, by default, every hour and updates it every minute. The default setting is 500 percent.
Rate threshold	Specifies the number of packets per second that must be exceeded in order to indicate to the system that there is an attack. The default setting is 250,000 packets per second.
Rate limit	Specifies the limit in packets per second. The default setting is 2,500,000 packets per second.

At the bottom of the screen, review the list of known attack types and their current settings in the summary table.

Threshold Mode

specifies how thresholds are set for this vector.

Fully Automatic

indicates that automatic thresholds are used to mitigate DDoS attacks based on server stress.

Manual Detection/Auto Mitigation

indicates that you set thresholds manually. However, the system also automatically examines server stress, and mitigates the attack vector if the server is stressed.

Fully Manual

indicates that you configure parameters for DoS vector detection and rate limiting manually. The system mitigates the attack vector based on the threshold values you set.

Detection Threshold EPS

specifies how many packets per second the system must discover in traffic in order to detect this attack.

Detection Threshold Percent

specifies the threshold percent the system must discover in traffic in order to detect this attack.

Mitigation Threshold EPS

specifies the maximum number of this type of packet per second the system allows for a vector. The system drops packets once the traffic level exceeds the rate limit.

Bad Actor Detection

Add Source Address to Category

specifies that the source IP address be added to the blacklist category assigned to the DoS vector.

Customize attack types individually, as needed:

Click the name of the attack type to open the properties screen for it.

On the attack type properties screen, select the

State

for how to enforce protection for the attack type.

Mitigate

indicates watch, learn, alert, and mitigate protection is used.

Detect Only

indicates watch, learn, and alert protection is used.

Learn Only

indicates that stats should be collected with no mitigation.

Disabled

indicates that there should be no stat collection and no mitigation.

Selecting a state determines which detection settings are displayed.

Supply values for the properties displayed to configure the protection for the attack type.

Click

Refer to the BIG-IP system documentation,

BIG-IP Systems: DoS Protection and Protocol Firewall Implementations

, for information on each attack type.

Save your work.

Configure for Network Security

You can configure the conditions under which the system determines that your server is under a network DoS attack.

Click

Configuration

SECURITY

Shared Security

DoS Protection

DoS Profiles

In the DoS Profiles screen, click the profile name you want to configure.

On the left, click

Network Security

to display the Properties screen.

On the Properties screen, select the check box for

Network Protection

The screen displays an area for configuring dynamic signatures, and a list of commonly-known network attack types that the system can detect.

In the

Enforcement

setting, select the enforcement state for dynamic signatures.

This setting is available only for BIG-IP devices version 13.0 or later.

To enable enforcement of dynamic DoS vectors, select

Enabled

. When enforcement is enabled, all thresholds and threshold actions are applied. Enabling enforcement causes additional options to be displayed.

To apply no action or thresholds to dynamic vectors, select

Disabled

To track dynamic vector statistics, without enforcing any thresholds or limits, select

Learn-Only

In the

Mitigation Sensitivity

setting, specify the mitigation sensitivity for dynamic signatures (

None

Low

Medium

, or

High

In the

Redirection/Scrubbing

setting, specify whether to enable redirection and scrubbing of IP addresses identified by dynamic vectors.

This enables handling of the dynamic vector hits by an IP intelligence category. Enabling redirection and scrubbing causes additional options to be displayed.

In the

Scrubbing Category

setting, select the IP intelligence blacklist category to which scrubbed IP addresses are sent.

In the

Scrubbing Advertisement Time

setting, type the duration in seconds for which an IP address is added to the blacklist category.

At the bottom of the screen, review the Known Attack Types list that shows commonly known attack types that you want the system to detect in packets.

Review the list of known attack types and their current settings in the summary table.

Threshold Mode

specifies how thresholds are set for this vector.

Fully Automatic

indicates that automatic thresholds are used to mitigate DDoS attacks based on server stress.

Manual Detection/Auto Mitigation

indicates that you set thresholds manually. However, the system also automatically examines server stress, and mitigates the attack vector if the server is stressed.

Fully Manual

indicates that you configure parameters for DoS vector detection and rate limiting manually. The system mitigates the attack vector based on the threshold values you set.

Detection Threshold EPS

specifies how many packets per second the system must discover in traffic in order to detect this attack.

Detection Threshold Percent

specifies the threshold percent the system must discover in traffic in order to detect this attack.

Mitigation Threshold EPS

specifies the maximum number of this type of packet per second the system allows for a vector. The system drops packets once the traffic level exceeds the rate limit.

Bad Actor Detection

Add Source Address to Category

specifies that the source IP address be added to the blacklist category assigned to the DoS vector.

Customize attack types individually, as needed:

Click the name of the attack type to open the properties screen for it.

On the attack type properties screen, select the

State

for how to enforce protection for the attack type.

Mitigate

indicates watch, learn, alert, and mitigate protection is used.

Detect Only

indicates watch, learn, and alert protection is used.

Learn Only

indicates that stats should be collected with no mitigation.

Disabled

indicates that there should be no stat collection and no mitigation.

Selecting a state determines which detection settings are displayed.

Supply values for the properties displayed to configure the protection for the attack type.

Click

Refer to the BIG-IP system documentation,

BIG-IP Systems: DoS Protection and Protocol Firewall Implementations

, for information on each attack type.

Save your work.

Edit DoS profiles

You can edit DoS profiles to fine tune what the system considers to be a DoS attack, and how the system handles a DoS attack.

Click

Configuration

SECURITY

Shared Security

DoS Protection

DoS Profiles

In the DoS Profiles screen, click the name of the profile to modify.

This locks the profile for editing and opens the properties screen.

For details, consult these topics:

Configure for application security

Configure for protocol DNS security

Configure for protocol SIP security

Configure for network security

Make edits as needed for your configuration.

The system saves edits as you make them.

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Applies To:

BIG-IQ Centralized Management

Managing DoS Profiles in Shared Security

About DoS profiles

DoS profile considerations when deploying to BIG-IP device clusters

DoS profile considerations when managing multiple BIG-IP device versions

Create DoS profiles

Configure for application security

Configure for protocol DNS security

Configure for protocol SIP security

Configure for Network Security

Edit DoS profiles

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Applies To:

BIG-IQ Centralized Management

Managing DoS Profiles in Shared Security

About DoS profiles

DoS profile considerations when deploying to BIG-IP device clusters

DoS profile considerations when managing multiple BIG-IP device versions

Create DoS profiles

Configure for application security

Configure for protocol DNS security

Configure for protocol SIP security

Configure for Network Security

Edit DoS profiles

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