How does a denial of service attack affect a business?
A Denial of Service (DoS) attack, unlike other security compromises such as basic attacks, identity attacks, and malicious code, are created to target a server or other network component with the intent to make the site unavailable to users. Typically, in a DoS attack, the primary motive is to deny the victim access to a certain resource and this attack will "prevent legitimate users of a service from accessing that service" ( Carnegie Mellon ).