DNS is Under Attack - the Miscreant's Offensive Playbook with a Defensive Counter
Channel: FIRST
Date: 2021-06-17

Speaker: Barry Greene (Akamai, US)

Our DNS is Under Attack is not something anyone wants to hear. DNS’s critical role is a threat attacker. Taking out DNS is easier than trying to take down a web site. Smart miscreants have a playbook of offensive DNS attack techniques that they can use against any organization.

Attacks against DNS are broad, yet critical to everything on the Internet. This multi-episode series will start with the miscreant threat to DNS and then expand to many other topics. Each episode will focus on the threat, the defensive countermeasures which have proven to push back against the miscreant threat. After the miscreant threats, we will expand into a range of topics around resiliency.

About the Speaker
For over 30 years, Barry Raveendran Greene has applied his organizational leadership, business acumen, “cyber-security” & networking experience to the expansion of the Internet. Barry’s Operator-Centric innovations have cleared the path of Internet success by finding solutions for DDOS, network scalability, and content distribution. Barry has been responsible for pioneering tools for DDOS defense (the Clean Pipe’s Architecture, Netflow, FlowSpec, etc.).  He has orchestrated industry-wide responses to direct threats to the Internet (Code Red, Slammer, Conficker, DCWG and much more). Barry works at all level of the industry from the CxOs to the creative core that drives networking. He is a “cyber-security” advisor to governments and was responsible for building the “global trust community” of security professionals (the underground white hat community which enables the effective takedowns). Barry has instigated, created, deploy, and driven many of the security innovation used in today’s anti-DDOS, Vulnerability management, service provider security, and DNS security solutions.

Barry comes to Akamai in the Carrier, Security, and Enterprise BU as a Principal Architect. He is part of Akamai’s continued investment to deliver services that make the Internet Fast, Reliable, and Secure. Barry is an expert in Edge Compute deployment architectures and scaling services throughout the Internet. Those technical skills are combined with the Strategic foresight to understand where the industry is heading, building the capabilities, capacity, and deployment experience to be ready for the Internet’s next wave.