Simulation of protection mechanisms against botnets

To create effective mechanisms of protection against botnets, it is necessary to investigate the behavior of botnets and their impact on the operation of computer networks, as well as methods for botnet detection and counteraction to them. The paper investigates protection mechanisms against botnets, which are proliferated by worm propagation techniques and carry out DDoS attacks. As a toolkit to study of botnets and protect mechanisms we developed the simulation environment. The paper considers the architecture of the simulation environment implemented and a multitude of experiments which show ample opportunities of the developed simulation environment for research of botnets and protection mechanisms.