Abstract
The application of the Monte Carlo method to solving the problem of identifying and assessing the protection against DDoS attacks of weak nodes is considered. The field of research is of practical and theoretical interest, since the methods developed by the classical theory of reliability are focused on simple, stationary flows. Under the conditions of DDoS attacks, the flow of attacking requests is not stationary, so the known analytical models give an unacceptable error. For the reliability of the results, the freedom to choose the distribution function, the moments of arrival of the attacking requests, their duration and the response of the attacked node is required. The method is applicable for modelling a computer network when organizing an information security audit.