IP Address Spoofing - Defense Against Spoofing Attacks

Defense Against Spoofing Attacks

Packet filtering is one defense against IP spoofing attacks. The gateway to a network usually performs ingress filtering, which is blocking of packets from outside the network with a source address inside the network. This prevents an outside attacker spoofing the address of an internal machine. Ideally the gateway would also perform egress filtering on outgoing packets, which is blocking of packets from inside the network with a source address that is not inside. This prevents an attacker within the network performing filtering from launching IP spoofing attacks against external machines.

It is also recommended to design network protocols and services so that they do not rely on the IP source address for authentication.

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