Security+ ยท 2.0 Threats
Denial of Service (DoS)
An attack that makes a service unavailable to legitimate users. Can be resource exhaustion (flooding), protocol abuse, or configuration tampering (e.g., changing a password the scoring engine uses).
How this shows up at NCAE
Every red team action that causes a service check to fail is a DoS by another name. At NCAE, DoS is measured directly. the scoreboard tracks downtime as missed points.
Error patterns associated with this term
Competition failures where this Security+ concept applies.