Distributed Denial of Service prevention: Current state.

Show Notes

Rick Howard, The CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, discusses the current state of Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) prevention with CyberWire Hash Table guests Steve Winterfeld, Akamai’s Field CSO, and Jim Gilbert, Akamai’s Director Product Management, and Rick Doten, the CISO for Healthcare Enterprises and Centene.

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HOST(S):

Rick Howard is the CSO of N2K and the Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at the N2K Cyber, formerly CyberWire. His past lives include CSO at Palo Alto Networks, CISO at TASC, the GM at Verisign/iDefense, the Counterpane SOC Director, and the Commander of the Army's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). Rick served 25 years in the Army, taught computer science at West Point, edited two books and just published his own book, "Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics" and he is regularly joined at the N2K Cyber's Hash Table by a collection of industry experts.

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