Too big to scale: DDoS & IoT (Flashpoint) & Crypto-IoT Security Paradox (Acreto)


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Topic 1:
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are designed to take down the receiver's network, but what happens when the attacks are so large they break the sender's network, too? In this presentation, Flashpoint’s Allison Nixon will discuss recent DDoS events (including Memcached and Satori) in 2017-2018, what happened when the DDoS attacks became too large, and future implications for Internet stability.
About our first speaker:
Allison Nixon is a Director of Security Research at Flashpoint. She has been a background source for numerous investigations and articles that focus on the post-breach issue of "who dunnit?". Allison performs original threat research and specializes in DDoS attribution, cybercrime attribution, criminal communities, and answering questions that people have not yet thought to ask. In 2013, she spoke at Black Hat about bypassing DDoS protection. In 2014, she released a paper detailing methods for vetting leaked data. In October 2016, her findings placed her at the forefront of the Mirai botnet DDoS attacks against Dyn DNS. In her spare time she grows tomatoes and makes puns.
Topic 2: The Crypto-IoT Security Paradox: How more security makes you less secure.
The concept of the Ecosystem, backed up by one-to-one security
IoTs have seeped into every aspect of modern life including healthcare, transportation, energy, supply chains and even homes. They are purpose-built, highly distributed and have just enough resources to do their intended task and not much more. IoTs are also on-track to be the biggest consumers of Crypto-technologies. The Crypto-IoT space represents the polar opposite of enterprise technologies, while the industry is still applying traditional security models and tools. This presentation identifies how the Crypto-IoT model is different and what it demands to be securely operationalized.
About our second speaker: Babak Pasdar is CEO of Acreto. Babak is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur, recognized for innovating and bringing to market next-generation technologies and approaches to address difficult industry challenges.

Too big to scale: DDoS & IoT (Flashpoint) & Crypto-IoT Security Paradox (Acreto)