A method and a system, wherein the system comprises a first server
operatively coupled to a router, to receive a copy of network traffic
processed by the router, a database operatively coupled to the first
server, wherein the server records parsed network traffic information
onto the database, and a device operatively coupled to the first server
to receive alerts regarding possible denial-of-service attacks, the
alerts based upon network traffic falling outside a standard deviation
range. A method that comprises receiving a data packet from a network,
parsing the data packet, storing data in the fields of the data packet
into a database, comparing observed data set values with a historical
data set values, sending an alert to a device based upon network traffic
falling outside a standard deviation range, and updating the historical
data set values by averaging the observed data set values with an old
historical data set values.