CyLab presents Scott Iekel-Johnson, Sr. Product Manager at Arbor Networks, as part of the weekly distinguished seminar series.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to grow in size, frequency, and complexity, and can affect any resource on the Internet, from the largest to the smallest, at any time. Motivations for attacks vary widely, from the personal to online activism to political or economic espionage to organized crime. In spite of their pervasiveness, the commercial or political sensitivities of DDoS attack targets often mean that the precise nature and impact of these attacks are hidden from view. Likewise, network operators are frequently reluctant to share details of their defense strategies for fear of giving attackers an added advantage. While understandable, this results in a siloing of expertise, preventing effective collaboration between network operators and the security research community to provide better strategies to defeat these attacks. Arbor Networks has been working with network operators, both service providers and enterprises, for the last 15 years to develop effective protection strategies for these attacks. This talk will pull back the curtain on DDoS attack experience and practice, providing an overview of Arbor Network's latest research into DDoS attack trends and discuss current operational best practices for how global network operators detect and mitigate DDoS attacks.
