HTTP (D)DoS Protection for Web Servers

The scrutinizer is a tool kit to protect web applications from HTTP (D)DoS attacks. It consists of an analysis engine, an Apache Module and a set of visualization tools.

The analysis engine analyse webserver access logfiles in almost real time. It continuously monitors the log files and if a client exceeds the defined threshold, the client gets temporarily blacklisted. The Apache module is an extension to webserver which block the offenders or wrong doers on the webserver.