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2007-06-06 @ 18:30 - Location: Apple Store

DOS Mitigation, Steven Kreuzer
[nycbug-2007-06-06.mp3] [meeting_2007-06-06.ppt]
(Audio generously recorded and processed by Nikolai Fetissov)

Protecting your servers, workstations and networks can only go so far. Attacks which consume your available Internet-facing bandwidth, or overpower your CPU, can still take you offline. His presentation will discuss techniques for mitigating the effects of such attacks on servers designed to provide network intensive services such as HTTP or routing.

About the speaker:
Steven Kreuzer is currently employed by Right Media as a Systems Administrator focusing on building and managing high transaction infrastructures around the globe. He has been working with Open Source technologies since as long as he can remember, starting out with a 486 salvaged from a dumpster behind his neighborhood computer store. In his spare time he enjoys doing things with technology that have absolutely no redeeming social value.