Description:

In recent years, there has been a stark increase in the use of Distributed Denial of Service attacks, most recently used during the (cyber)war in Ukraine. DDoS attacks form a direct assault on the resilience of the Internet. The Netherlands, as a crucial node in Internet Exchange points, has also been afflicted by many DDoS attacks in the past few years. For this reason,
In 2018 the Dutch government, law enforcement, Internet service providers, Internet exchanges, universities, non-profit organisations and financial institutions joined forces in a public private initiative to investigate and combat DDoS attacks from different perspectives. That was the birth of the Anti-DDoS coalition (www.nomoreddos.org).
The aim of the coalition is to further improve the resilience of Dutch critical services by sharing expertise, experiences, and operational data on DDoS attacks. The members collaborate in joint projects, knowledge sharing, sharing DDoS measurements and even a joint National DDoS attack simulation and testing, unique in the world.

In this tutorial we will talk about the multi stakeholder progressive approach and the measurements taken in the public private collaboration in the Netherlands. We want to share our knowledge and results with other countries as an inspiration for a common approach and reach out to work together to make a more trustworthy, secure and stable Internet. And give an insight on the supportive role of the government.
The National Anti-DDoS-Coalition is a collaboration between public and private partners, including government agencies, law enforcement, Internet Service Providers, banks, and academia.