Paweł Kuśmierski -is a Senior Engineer and Lead of Akamai’s System Operations in Krakow, Poland. He’s responsible for operational oversight of Internet Mapping and Distributed Storage systems. In the past he interned at Google’s Mountain View office as a Software Engineer. He lives with his wife and three year old son in Krakow. He likes building electronic devices, systems programming and flying gliders.
Topic of Presentation: How Akamai and Prolexic mitigate (D)DoS attacks
Language: Polish
Abstract: The presentation will cover the common types of attacks Akamai and Prolexic see, and what mitigation techniques are available to protect against them. It will start with a short architectural description of how their networks are built. It will describe at what level they get attacked, and how are the attacks handled.