Reminder: BOF on Distributed DoS, San Jose 2/7/00

[David Kennedy CISSP <david.kennedy () acm org>]

The purpose of this message is to solicit participation in birds of a
feather (BOF) session to discuss the Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS)
problem.

WHO: Everyone interested in aggressively addressing a category of attack
threatening Internet-connected systems.

WHAT: We (ICSA.net ) are have put together at least two BOF's to discuss
DDOS attacks in the trin00, TFN, TNF2K, stacheldraht...family.  

WHEN & WHERE: The next BOF session will be Monday, February 7, 2000 from 7
to 9 pm at Doubletree Hotel San Jose, 2050 Gateway Place, San Jose, CA -
phone 408-453-4000 (conference hotel).  Refreshments will be served.  This
BOF session coincides with the North American Network Operators Group
(NANOG) conference and a meeting of ICSA's ISPSec Consortium, but the BOF
is open to all interested parties.

WHY: The goals are two-fold initially, awareness of the problem and see if
the collection of smarts at a BOF can suggest effective ways of dealing
with these attacks other than "hoping" the clue-challenged secure their
systems before the trojans are installed.  

relevant URL's:
http://www.icsa.net/html/communities/ispsec/
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0002/
http://www.washington.edu/People/dad/
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-moskowitz-hip-01.txt
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-moskowitz-hip-enc-00.txt
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-moskowitz-hip-dns-00.txt
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-moskowitz-hip-arch-01.txt

Tentative Agenda:

Introduction:  
The Problem:    
        Technical Review of Attack tools        
        Trends/  Implications/ Characteristics

Possible Mitigations:
        Scanning for Master / Slaves            
        ISP Egress /Ingress Filtering           
        Potential Protocol Changes  HIP
        Open discussion                 
        Next Steps                                      

Noteworthy Participants:

        Dave Dittrich 
        Bob Moskowitz


-- 
Regards,

Dave Kennedy CISSP
Director of Research Services, ICSA.net http://www.icsa.net
Protect what you connect.
Look both ways before crossing the Net.