Experts Available to Discuss Denial-of-Service Attacks on Domain Name System Servers.

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TOPIC: Over the past few days, two denial-of-service attacks occurred on Domain Name System (DNS) servers, according to an article by Computerworld. DNS servers are used to identify and translate domain names from plain text to numeric Internet Protocol addresses. Although attacks against DNS servers are not common, they are considered dangerous as they have the ability to bring down a large number of Web sites at one time.

EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story:

Peter Rendall, CEO of Top Layer Networks, can speak to the recent trend of targeting DNS servers with denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. He can speak to the methods that are used to attack these servers and how companies can protect themselves from these types of threats. Founded in 1997, Top Layer Networks develops network security solutions that enable enterprises worldwide to protect their infrastructure and critical online assets from cyber-threats. The Company's patented, ASIC-based products are engineered to deliver accurate and reliable protection mechanisms while operating as robust in-line network security devices. Prior to joining Top Layer in March 2003, Peter held executive positions at two public companies for more than seven years. Peter brings to Top Layer a successful track record of implementing high growth strategies for companies in the IT industry. Prior to leading the Top Layer team, Peter served as the Chief Financial Officer of Elcom International, an international leading provider of complex technology solutions.

Robert Mueller, director of product management for DeepNines Technologies, is a leading engineer in the network security industry. He is an expert in network security technologies including router security, intrusion prevention and networking. In addition, he is an experienced teacher in the areas of networking, security, vulnerabilities and more and has taught everything from basic level to expert level in all of these fields. Mr. Mueller is a member of DeepNines Technical Services Organization, which is responsible for building network architectures and solutions, along with pre and post sales customer support. In his role, Mr. Mueller focuses on the relationship between the sales and engineering teams, managing the overall product direction and roadmap. He is an expert on market and engineering trends, and uses this knowledge to help DeepNines develop industry-leading security solutions.

Dr. Jose Nazario, Security Researcher at Arbor Networks, is an accomplished security researcher and worm specialist. Jose Nazario is currently working with Arbor Networks and focusing on internal threats and how they impact and infiltrate the enterprise and service provider network. Jose has spearheaded the activity on the Active Threat Feed, which is the first 24x7 service that delivers behavioral fingerprints of emerging worldwide threats directly to enterprise security teams. In addition to his work at Arbor on internal network security, Jose's research interests include large-scale Internet trends such as reachability and topology measurement, Internet events such as DDoS attacks and worms, source code analysis methods, and data mining. Jose is the author of Defense and Detection Strategies Against Internet Worms and is the editor in chief of Worm Blog, a blog project that collects and shares links about worm related research, events and tools. He is a frequent speaker at industry events such as Black Hat, the RSA Security Conference often contributes to papers for IEEE, NSDI and Network Systems and Distributed Systems.

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