Shirleen Sharma and Aaron Heady
Surviving a large-scale DDoS attack is usually not a requirement when designing a service. Yet, the ability to do so often translates into gains in both performance and service hardening and requires an intimate understanding of real-user traffic.
DDoS requires a defense-in-depth attitude to engineering our services; for sophisticated attacks, just depending on CDNs (almost all of them have some form of capability) gives some respite, but still hurts a 4-nines availability target.
This talk is for the SRE who has just begun thinking about large-scale DDoS mitigation and aims to provide a structure of how to create a comprehensive defense strategy.
Shirleen Sharma[node:field-speakers-institution]
Having worked on critical failover systems, resource compilers and high performance C#, Shirleen loves to dive deep into ambiguous problems as a software engineer at Microsoft. When she's not off slaying dragons at work, she creates accessible STEM education programs and loves to read.
Aaron Heady[node:field-speakers-institution]
Aaron is a Reliability Engineer recently with Microsoft who focuses on CDN/DNS performance, availability, and traffic routing. 20+ years in tech, let’s talk! When not working, he’s probably snowboarding, sewing, or cooking.
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author = {Shirleen Sharma and Aaron Heady},
title = {Warding against the Dark Arts: Crafting a Defense Strategy against Botnet {DDoS} Attacks},
year = {2023},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}