Tutorials

Monday, 23 May 09:00 - 11:00

Simulated DDoS Attacks, Breaking the Firewall Infrastructure
Henrik Lund Kramshøj

DDoS Attacks have become a daily annoyance for many, and we need to create robust infrastructure. This tutorial will go through a proposed method for testing your own infrastructure using off-the-shelf tools like packet generators hping3 and t50 on Kali Linux.

The goal for the tutorial is to explain:
  • How to create DDoS attack simulations
  • My actual experience with doing this - testing banks, etc.
  • Evaluate how good is this, value proposition for you
The content will include:
  • Running packet generators with example commands hping3 and t50
  • Monitoring availability while doing DDoS attacks
  • Comparing this with real life attacks
  • Results from doing attacks on real life customer networks, mostly banks in or around Denmark
  • My recommendations for a holistic approach to DDoS protection in your networks
There won’t be any exercises, but I recommend trying to install Kali Linux on a Virtual Machine to get familiar with this Linux distribution.

I will be doing demos showing how I run commands and monitor a DDoS simulation.

Where: Main Room

 
Hands-on DNSSEC with DNSViz
Casey Deccio

DNSSEC enables the authentication of DNS responses. Despite this benefit, expert DNS operators have observed that there are challenges in understanding, deploying, monitoring and troubleshooting DNSSEC. DNSViz was developed to address these challenges by adding a suite to the existing DNS analysis tools in order to retrieve and analyse relevant DNS and DNSSEC information and present it to the user in graphical and programmatic formats.

This tutorial will get hands-on with DNSSEC concepts by performing some DNSSEC signing, validation and manipulation, and using DNSViz to analyse and monitor the configurations.

Prerequisites: The tutorial seeks to both instruct the DNSSEC novice and provide additional perspective to the DNSSEC experts. Some familiarity with DNS and Linux OS-based tools is helpful but not required.

Please come prepared to participate with:
  • Laptop computer (with power adapter)
  • Internet access
  • VirtualBox installed on your laptop, preferably version 5.0 (latest)
  • The tutorial demo VM image, downloaded, unzipped and installed, following the instructions at: http://dnsviz.net/demo/
Please email cdeccio [at] verisign [dot] com with any questions.

Where: Side Room

 
RIPE Database Tips and Tricks
Ferenc Csorba, RIPE NCC

In this two-hour tutorial we will cover different aspects of the RIPE Database that are not well-known to the wider community, in addition to new features that improve the user experience.

Topics we will discuss:
  • Global Resource Service (GRS)
  • Single Sign-On (SSO)
  • How to set up PGP and use it for updates
  • "created:" and "last-modified:" attributes
  • Partial route object creation
Where: Tutorial Room