Fundamentals of DDoS Mitigation

In this tutorial, the attendees will go over the basics of Denial of Service attacks and network technology pertaining to them. The tutorial goes over the OSI netw …

In this tutorial, the attendees will go over the basics of Denial of Service attacks and network technology pertaining to them. The tutorial goes over the OSI network layers and what function they fulfill and what is vulnerable to attack in those layers both at the hardware and software layers. The tutorial then focuses on, and explains in detail, all the currently popular attacks: reflection (DNS, NTP, SSDP), SYN flood, Sloworis, etc. The tutorial is vendor agnostic and focuses on network technologies.