Fusion: Practice and Applications FPA 2692-4048 2770-0070 10.54216/FPA https://www.americaspg.com/journals/show/901 2018 2018 A Review of the Common DDoS Attack: Types and Protection Approaches Based on Artificial Intelligence Department of computer sciences, shatt al-arab University college, Al Basrah, 61001, Iraq N. A. Majeed alhammadi Department of computer sciences, shatt al-arab University college, Al Basrah, 61001, Iraq K. Hameed Zaboon Department of computer sciences, shatt al-arab University college, Al Basrah, 61001, Iraq A. Abdulhadi Abdullah Recently, technology become an important part of our life, and it is employed to work together with Medicine, Space Science, Agriculture, industry, and more else. Stored the information in the servers and cloud become required. It is a global force that has transformed people's lives with the availability of various web applications that serve billions of websites every day. However, there are many types of attacks that could be targeting the internet, and there is a need to recognize, classify and protect thesis types of attack.  Due to its important global role, it has become important to ensure that web applications are secure, accurate, and of high quality. One of the basic problems found on the Web is DDoS attacks. In this work, the review classifies and delineates attack types, test characteristics, evaluation techniques; evaluation methods, and test data sets used in the proposed Strategic Strategy methodology. Finally, this work affords guidance and possible targets in the fight against creating better events to overcome the most dangerous Cyber-attack types which are DDoS attacks. 2022 2022 08 14 10.54216/FPA.070101 https://www.americaspg.com/articleinfo/3/show/901