OUR PRODUCTS, BEFORE YOU NEED IT.
The Hack-Back module is suited to high-strategic-value Military/Government environments, as it is able to defend those infrastructures that require active IT protection. It is the core module of TssT and allows the infrastructure to be defended actively by counterattacking the targets detected as attackers.
An attack it can react to may be similar to the one received by many Ukrainian government sites and banking institutions, namely a type of attack called DDoS. DDoS stands for Distributed Denial of Service, meaning a distributed interruption of the service. With this technique a site is flooded with requests so that the simultaneous response becomes unmanageable for the available resources, putting the site and its resources out of order.
In a DDoS attack the requests come from a multitude of sources, which can be infected computers forming a network called a Botnet. The Hack-Back module was developed to intercept this type of attack too, counterattacking and putting in place four attack phases with the aim of defending the infrastructure.
Below are the phases put in place by the module to actively defend:
