DDoS Attacks – Lessons Learned from Real Life Experience

2011 was the year in which DoS attacks turned from its niche corner and became a mainstream security threat. The single most important reason for this is the Anonymous phenomena. This loosely organized group brought virtual social protests to the forefront with attacks on large and well-known organizations. Anonymous popularized DoS attacks and made them well known not only among the security community, but also in the public media. The financial sector was hit and urgently forced to confront threatening situations as well as Government sites.

Denial of Service attacks becomes much more organized and professional. The attacks become more complex with attackers using as many as five different attack vectors in a single “attack campaign”. Hackers had become quite sophisticated blending both network and application attacks in a single offensive. 

For the security community, DoS mitigation became an important topic. Many organizations either had no protection at all or had inadequate protections in place, and found themselves unprepared for these attacks. On the bright side, the very public attacks last year raised awareness of DoS and made organizations acquire better and more capable mitigation solutions.

In this talk I will discuss the key finding of Radware’s 2011 global security report, and will share some of the most challenging attack campaigns and security cases Radware faced recently.

Ilan Kinreich, Chief Operating Officer, Radware

Mr. Kinreich has experience accumulated in over 25 years in the high-tech industry. Prior to Radware he was the founder and CEO of Radview Software that developed performance testing and management solutions. Mr. Kinreich took the company from inception to a Nasdaq IPO accumulating hundreds of enterprise customers from the financial services, high-technology, telecommunications and retail sectors. 

Mr. Kinreich holds a BsC degree in Mathematics and Computer Sciences from Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

This event is being hosted by Patrick O’Dwyer at HSBC.

18:30 Registration

18:45 Introductions

19:00 Presentation

19:45 Q&A

20:00 Adjourn to a nearby pub