Protect a Chat Community from Attack

Exchange Chat Service includes security enhancements that can help you implement attack protection for a chat community. These security enhancements reduce, and in many cases prevent, attacks that can disrupt service or compromise your chat community's security. There are control methods for each of the three basic types of chat community attacks: flooding attacks, clone attacks, and direct client attacks.

To prevent flooding attacks on a chat community, choose one of the following options:

• Set the attack protection level.

• Set the message processing delay.

• Set the output saturation limit.
• Use the IRCX Prop command to set the channel lag.

To control clone attacks on the server:

• Set the Maximum IP Connections option.

To control direct client attacks on the server:

• Enable the masking of IP addresses and DNS names.

Note   You can also use the Performance Monitor to monitor Chat Service security.

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