A Security Threats Taxonomy for Routing System Intrusion Detection

Security threats against routing system have become both increasingly numerous and sophisticated recently. However, so far there is not a taxonomy that could be useful for the routing system security threats. In this paper, a clear-cut and scalable taxonomy faced to routing system security threats was proposed. It consisted of four basic dimensions which provided a holistic classification in order to deal with inherent problems in the routing system security threats field. The four dimensions included attack layer, attack vector, attack target and attack effect. Besides the above dimensions, a number of further dimensions were added to enhance the taxonomy.