Distributing Security: Defending Web Sites With 13,000 Servers

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Presented at 12th USENIX Security Symposium 2003 by

Andy Ellis

Early models of Web site defense focused on the challenges of appropriately hardening a small cluster of machines and a simple network infrastructure against attack. With 13,000 distributed servers, a different set of challenges need to be overcome, from robust system management and monitoring to providing protection to backend servers.