BSIDESKyiv 2018 - HELEN TABUNSHCHYK GUARDING THE INTERNET FROM BOTNETS

GUARDING THE INTERNET FROM BOTNETS 1/3 of all downtime incidents are attributed to DDoS attacks, $150 is enough to make a small organisation unavailable for a week, right now your smart fridge might be flooding the network leading to your favourite website. Yesterday, today and tomorrow! In all data centres of the world! Modern networks introduce new opportunities to deliver more content in a point in time, but also bring new security flaws and performance issues. This talk will cover the theory behind performing a DDoS attack and L3/L7 mitigation. Helen is a systems engineer at Cloudflare, London, helping to speed up and protect more than 7 millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet against denial-of-service attacks, customer data compromise, and abusive bots. She is fascinated by secure high performance programming, and actively shares her passion about IT through mentoring and public speaking.