DIMACS Workshop on Large-scale Internet Attacks

September 23 -24, 2003
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ

Organizers:
Vern Paxson, ICSI Center for Internet Research, vern@icir.org
Steve Bellovin, AT&T Labs - Research, smb@research.att.com
Stuart Staniford, Silicon Defense
Stefan Savage, UC San Diego, savage@cs.ucsd.edu
Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Communication Security and Information Privacy.

Workshop Program:

Preliminary Program for DIMACS Workshop on Large-Scale Attacks

IMPORTANT: the workshop is meant to be a true workshop, in which the actual program is fluid, and the emphasis is on interactivity and incubating new connections (both between people and across areas). We anticipate last-minute changes, and indeed may alter the program on the spot as discussion and opportunity suggests. 

Tuesday, September 23, 2003

 8:30 -  9:30  Breakfast and Registration

 9:30 -  9:40  Opening remarks
	       Brenda Latka, Associate Director of DIMACS

 9:40 - 10:00  Welcome
	       Attendee Introductions

10:00 - 12:00  Experiences with large-scale attacks
	       A Large-scale View of Large-scale Attacks
               Sean Donalen, SBC Internet Services

	       Infrastructure Attack Trends 
               Craig Labovitz, Arbor Networks

	       Attacks on services - unofficial perspectives from a CDN 

	       Attacks on services - unofficial perspectives from a large website

	       Discussion

12:00 -  1:30  Lunch

 1:30 -  3:00  DDoS
	       Overview
               John Ioannidis, AT&T Labs - Research

	       Defenses
               Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University

	       Source address filtering 
               Avi Freedman

	       Discussion:
		 is the problem still relevant?
		 is traceback relevant?
		 barriers to deploying solutions?

 3:00 -  3:30  Break

 3:30 -  5:00  Techniques
	       Telescopes 
               David Moore, UCSD

	       Sampling techniques 
               George Varghese, UCSD

	       P2P techniques, large-scale coordination 
               Joel Sandin, Stanford University

	       Honeynets
               Dave Dittrich, University of Washington

	       Open Mike (i.e., we'll call in advance for presentations here)

	       Discussion

 6:00          Dinner


Wednesday, September  24, 2003

 8:30 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 - 11:30  Worms
	       Overview
               Stuart Staniford, Silicon Defense
	       
               Diverse axes of scaling 
               Dan Ellis, MITRE
	       
               Modeling/detecting worm propagation 
               Lixin Gao, University of Massachusetts 

	       Topological worm defenses 
               Nick Weaver, UCB

	       Break

	       Pulsing attacks on routers
               Avi Freedman

	       Auto-patching 
               Angelos Keromytis, Columbia University

	       Discussion

11:30 -  1:00  Lunch

 1:00 -  2:30  Attacks on routing
	       BGP attacks
               Avi Freedman

	       Targeted link attacks 
               Steve Bellovin, AT&T Labs - Research

	       Authentication and robustness
               Alex Snoeren, UCSD

	       Discussion

 2:30 -  2:45  Break

 2:45 -  4:00  Where do we need to go?
	       Facilitated discussion
               Stefan Savage, UCSD
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