Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection

"Introduction to DDoS Attacks - An overview of motivation and modus operandi of attackers"
DDoS attacks have been around for more than 20 years now, and over this time, they have gained in power, reaching now several terrabits in bandwidth, enough to knock of ISPs. While the actual DDoS attacks have changed very little, the orchestration of the attacks, the deployment of their components and the motives of attackers have evolved.

This course will give the participants an overview of the attacks and the attackers, their motivation and modus operandi.

While DDoS attacks have become more powerful and easier to start for attackers, the technical details of DDoS attacks have been remarkably consistent over the last 20 years.

This course will provide the participants with an in-depth view of the technical details of the most common DDoS mechanisms: amplification and reflection and the services being exploited for them.

The questions of how DDoS Detection works sounds simple: when your can't access your systems, you're under attack. But this may also happen due to technical problems and misconfigurations. And what if you want to detect attacks without being a victim of one?

The course will show participants the various ways of how DDoS attacks are detected on the Internet.

Mitigating a DDoS attack, especially the bigger ones, seems a daunting task, especially so with a determined attacker and when other sites are also affected.

This course will show some simple, but proven techniques to combat DDoS attacks and also to avoid unintentionally partaking in one.