Canberra Branch Meeting: DDoS

Starts: Wednesday 26 October 2011, 3:15PM

Finishes: Wednesday 26 October 2011, 5:00PM

Date: Wednesday 26 October 2011
Time: 3:15pm for 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Venue: Uni Pub - Level 3, Uni Pub, 17 London Circuit, Canberra

Topic: DDoS - Still Happening Today and What We Can Do

This presentation will provide an overview of how the types, reasons and uses of DDoS have evolved over time. The presentation will include an overview of the Wikileaks attacks, explaining how they were identified, analysed and mitigated, as well as showing the reverse engineering process of the opt-in botnet malware (LOIC) used in these attacks.

In the case of the Wikilieaks related attacks, as well as countless other DDoS attacks around the world, global Telcos and the world's largest CDN clearly struggle with very large or complex DDoS attacks. As such, an overview of the way other service providers commonly approach the DDoS problem, and how any less than robust solution is easily exploited by DDoS attacks, will also be explored. Finally, this briefing will also provide an overview of new and innovative attack vectors being utilised, as well as how DDoS is being used in a variety of ways as part of more complex cyber attacks. In addition this presentation should provide you with options for mitigating these risks.

Speaker: Oliver Kwan

Oliver Kwan is the Prolexic Regional Sales Director for Asia. With over 10 years' experience working in the Internet hosting and security industry in Asia, Europe, North and South America, Oliver has worked with many large public and private sector enterprises to host and secure their web facing systems. Today, tens of thousands of domains and hundreds of organisations, including some of the world's largest online gambling operators, entrust their networks to Prolexic Technologies. As Prolexic fights between 10 to 50 DDoS attacks every single day on behalf of their clients, Oliver is well placed to discuss the past, present and future risk that cyber attacks like DDoS pose to online business.

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