Low-and-Slow ARP Flooding: The Bandwidth Attack Your Monitoring Dashboard Will Never Flag
Sophisticated attackers are exploiting a fundamental blind spot in conventional network monitoring by sustaining low-volume ARP floods over weeks rather than launching obvious burst attacks. Traditional threshold-based alerting systems are structurally ill-equipped to detect these gradual degradation campaigns. This article examines the mechanics of the technique, documents real-world organizational impact, and outlines actionable detection strategies that security teams can deploy today.