IRCCo Jeff
02-05-2012, 01:57 PM
Friends,
Out of 52 Technology presentations up for vote at hostingcon.com, at least 3 of them (from my cursory search) are DDoS themed. As you may have guessed all 3, mine included, are being proposed by the management of DDoS mitigation service providers. Even if well intentioned, it is easy to see how these presentations could be revenue drivers for the sponsoring companies.
The session I proposed "Distributed denial of service attacks: Are you prepared?" (see: http://www.hostingcon.com/account/session_proposals/vote/page:2/filter:19) is designed to be highly vendor/technology neutral and aims to provide a genuinely educational presentation that may, at most have 1 - 2 slides dedicated to commercial products. The remainder of the presentation would focus on best practices that can be employed by any company, without creating a "DDoS Mitigation" line item in the budget.
The fact of the matter is that a handful of companies have developed some really useful best practices but typically will not share them for various reasons. My goal is to collaborate with a healthy mix of availability security professionals from different corners of the DDoS mitigation spectrum and share those best practices which will help keep attendees safe from attacks against network availability.
Above all else, the presentation will be neutral and educational. In fact, my focus will be on sharing conceptual and technical methods that would push DDoS mitigation providers out of the picture in many cases, and enable hosting providers and website operators to defend themselves with organically available resources.
In closing, I ask your assistance in keeping the Technology track educational and vendor neutral.
Out of 52 Technology presentations up for vote at hostingcon.com, at least 3 of them (from my cursory search) are DDoS themed. As you may have guessed all 3, mine included, are being proposed by the management of DDoS mitigation service providers. Even if well intentioned, it is easy to see how these presentations could be revenue drivers for the sponsoring companies.
The session I proposed "Distributed denial of service attacks: Are you prepared?" (see: http://www.hostingcon.com/account/session_proposals/vote/page:2/filter:19) is designed to be highly vendor/technology neutral and aims to provide a genuinely educational presentation that may, at most have 1 - 2 slides dedicated to commercial products. The remainder of the presentation would focus on best practices that can be employed by any company, without creating a "DDoS Mitigation" line item in the budget.
The fact of the matter is that a handful of companies have developed some really useful best practices but typically will not share them for various reasons. My goal is to collaborate with a healthy mix of availability security professionals from different corners of the DDoS mitigation spectrum and share those best practices which will help keep attendees safe from attacks against network availability.
Above all else, the presentation will be neutral and educational. In fact, my focus will be on sharing conceptual and technical methods that would push DDoS mitigation providers out of the picture in many cases, and enable hosting providers and website operators to defend themselves with organically available resources.
In closing, I ask your assistance in keeping the Technology track educational and vendor neutral.