{"id":2461,"date":"2017-10-23T23:07:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T23:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-infoblox-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2020-05-06T10:27:55","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T17:27:55","slug":"cricket-liu-and-matt-larson-discuss-dyn-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/blog\/security\/cricket-liu-and-matt-larson-discuss-dyn-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket Liu and Matt Larson Discuss Dyn Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No one wants to remember painful days. Especially when your team had to cope up with the aftermath of the attack. However, if there is a 25% chance that your business may lose up to $100K and 50% chance that the loss can be at least 50% if your business is attacked on cyberspace, it is not a bad idea to take a look at how far we have come in defending against DDoS attacks.<\/p>\n<p>As part of an effort to educate businesses and consumers, Infoblox has observed October 20, 2017, as DNSAwareness day. We collaborated with both internal and external\u00a0experts to bring you a series of articles so that you may take the necessary steps to avoid becoming a victim of such attacks in future.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"toc-hId--1333311085\">Cricket Liu and Matt Larson Discuss Dyn Attack<\/h2>\n<p>Cricket Liu, Chief DNS Architect at Infoblox and Matt Larson, VP of Research at ICANN (former CTO of Dyn) discuss the Dyn DDoS attack and what changed since then both in terms of enterprises gearing up for DDoS attacks and ISPs and DNS providers preventing such attacks.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"xDcgPh0_h7A\" class=\" bf_frame_init\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xDcgPh0_h7A?enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/community.infoblox.com\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"toc-hId--445807404\">Recommended Blogs on DDoS<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/community\/the-dyn-ddos-attack-one-year-later\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dyn DDoS Attack: One Year Later by Jim Romeo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/community\/mirai-one-year-on\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mirai: One Year On by Max Metzger<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one wants to remember painful days. Especially when your team had to cope up with the aftermath of the attack. However, if there is a 25% chance that your business may lose up to $100K and 50% chance that the loss can be at least 50% if your business is attacked on cyberspace, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15],"class_list":{"0":"post-2461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-security","8":"tag-security","9":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cricket Liu and Matt Larson Discuss Dyn Attack<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 21, 2016 - 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