As large scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks become ever more sophisticated and ever more common, we ask, who’s doing these attacks? Why are they doing them? And as they become ever more sophisticated, how does the public sector defend itself from such global threats?
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On the panel:
- Kurt Frary, Chief Technology Officer, Norfolk County Council / Socitm Vice President
- Omer Yoachimik, Senior Product Manager for DDoS Protection and Security Reporting,
Cloudflare - Helen Olsen Bedford, Publisher and Research Director, UKAuthority
Resources mentioned in this discussion:
- Project Galileo - a free cyber security protection from Cloudflare which is providing robust security to 2,900+ vulnerable Internet properties that are the targets of DDoS and other cyber attacks.
- Cyber Assessment Framework for local government (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government)
- Cloudflare's 2024 latest threat report: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-for-2024-q4/
- Cloudflare DDoS protection: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/ddos/
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