Ben Mathis

COO, aspectra

Ben Mathis has completed his degree of Engineering and Management at the ZHAW. He has
been with aspectra, a leading Swiss provider of Managed Services, for 19 years where he
currently serves as COO and Head of Platform. His core competences are network security and
operations. Fun facts: Nerds out on self-made pizza dough. Can still do the Rubics cube. Craves
salt and vinegar crisps.

All Sessions by Ben Mathis

  • Sponsoring Track


  • 15:50  - 16:20
    Distributed denial of service attacks continue to be one of the major cyber threats to businesses. The threat landscape is constantly evolving, with the average number of attacks per customer currently being up 16% year-over-year. Not only keep the attacks growing in magnitude and intensity, their techniques are also getting more and more sophisticated (e.g. TCP SYN, memcached, botnets). The responsible attitude towards DDoS – as with other types of cyber threat – is therefore to treat it as a matter of when, not if. There is no silver bullet, however, when it comes to DDoS protection. Each organisation must therefore first examine their specific requirements with respect to risk assessment and budget very carefully. There are a number of technical pros and cons that have to be considered when designing and implementing a DDoS protection mechanism. This talk reflects our path towards finding an optimal solution for a Swiss-based, high-performance data centre.




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