Advanced Security with HAProxy

No matter the scale of your network and environment, security is a crucial issue. There’s no better topic for our inaugural Amsterdam meetup than hardening your infrastructure with the flexible, powerful, and proven security capabilities of HAProxy without impacting performance. See how Booking.com uses HAProxy for edge application delivery including SSL termination. Learn about DDoS and Bot protection and how to create an effective, high-performance solution.

The event will be hosted at Booking.com, at the heart of Amsterdam city center (on a lovely Friday night) so don’t miss it.

Topic 1:
DDoS and Bot protection with HAProxy, including:
• Protect against application-based DDoS attacks such as HTTP request flooding
• Protect against bot threats such as web scraping, brute forcing, and vulnerability scanning
• Implement an advanced threat response policy with the Antibot and Google reCAPTCHA modules
• Implement cluster wide threat protection with the Stick Table Aggregator

Speaker: Nenad Merdanovic - Principal Solutions Architect at HAProxy Technologies

Topic 2:
HAProxy SSL termination and its impact on performance, including
• Different SSL termination scenarios
• Performance impact of SSL termination

Speaker: Marcin Deranek - Senior System Administrator at Booking.com

Agenda:
18:00 - Welcome Drink & Sacks
18:30 - Presentations Begin
20:00 - Q&A
20:30 - Event Ends