Report from the Field: A CDN's Role in Repelling Attacks against Banking Industry Web Sites

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Presented at USENIX 2016 by

Bruce Maggs

This talk describes several types of attacks aimed at content delivery networks (CDNs) and their customers, along with strategies for mitigating these attacks. The attacks range from simple but large-scale denial-of-service attacks, to efforts to deface web sites, to click fraud. The talk presents examples of real attack campaigns, and analyzes the effectiveness of the CDN operated by Akamai Technologies in protecting its customers from them.