Practical Advice for Small and Medium Environment DDoS Survival

Anyone running an Internet presence today is susceptible to denial of service attacks. The scale of these attacks has ballooned to over 400Gbps in the past year, and the barrier to producing these has dropped tremendously. While there are several proposed solutions at an Internet Engineering level, none is uniformly adopted to head off the issue, so it's left to individual site owners to make practical trade offs to protect themselves. In this talk, I discuss some of the trade offs and advice for what a small or medium site owner can do to survive in the current climate.

Branson is a 27-year veteran of system architecture, administration and security. He started as a cryptologist for the US Navy and has since worked on NASA shuttle projects, TSA security and monitoring systems, and Internet search engines. He has also run his own company while continuing to support many open source projects. He is currently the CIO for Silent Circle, a privacy and security organization behind the Blackphone. Branson has his CEH, GSEC, GCIH, and several other credentials; and generally likes to spend time responding to the statement "I bet you can't."