DDoS attacks

Title

Network-Scale Mitigation of High-Volume Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attacks

Speaker/Bio

Mike Sabbota is a consulting engineer for Arbor Networks. He has over 18 years experience in designing, building and implementing networking and security strategies for global service providers and fortune 100 financial service organizations. Mike has been an early member and key contributor to a number of successful start-up companies who specialized in carrier-grade messaging, DNS, and security infrastructure. He is currently a student of the BU MET ADCP CS program ('15).

Abstract

Although volumetric reflection/amplification attacks have been observed in the wild for many years, recent high-profile NTP and DNS attacks have drawn more attention to them. This presentation will review a couple of the common DDoS reflection attacks, infrastructure impacts and best practices for mitigation.