Geopolitical situation continues to shape DDoS landscape in Q1 2024

The Dutch National Scrubbing Center (NaWas) protects participants against DDoS attacks. Besides protection, NaWas offers valuable insights about the changing landscape of DDoS. To better combat these malicious attacks, we share our up-to-date knowledge with interested parties. Together we stand strong against DDoS attacks. 

The number of DDoS attacks handled by NaWas in Q1 remains roughly the same as in Q4 2024, new statistics published by NBIP show. The largest attack handled was 313 Gbps. The most common types of attacks were UDP Flood, NTP amplification, TCP Flag Attack and DNS amplification. Less frequently seen attacks such as TFTP attacks fell out of the top 5 of most common attacks, where these types of attacks were quite prominent in the previous quarter.

The geopolitical situation is still largely shaping the DDoS landscape. Reports from major hacktivist instigated DDoS attacks are coming from across Europe, including Spain, Germany and Slovakia. On demand DDoS mitigation services as well as up to date knowledge about network resilience to these types of attacks remains of the utmost importance for organizations that are at risk of exposure to politically motivated DDoS attacks.

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Platform- and supplier-independent Cloud with Haven

Thursday, 27 November – 1:50 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Haven is an open solution for platform- and supplier-independent Cloud services. Haven is a building block of the pGDI and the NDS. Haven offers agnostic configuration of Cloud technology and provides organisations with a feasible exit plan. Expect an inspiring story about the practice of ecosystem-driven collaboration, in which we use the power of digitisation for the benefit of society.

Highlights:

  • Haven+
  • Ecosystem-driven collaboration
  • Platform- and supplier-independent cloud services
  • Data sovereignty

About Jacco Brouwer

Jacco Brouwer works for the Association of Netherlands Municipalities as Cloud Policy Coordinator and represents municipal interests in the NDS implementation programme on Cloud. From the Innovation Knowledge Centre at VNG, Jacco is the initiator of the public Incubator GROEI, through which VNG guides municipal collaboration and innovations based on a start-up philosophy in scaling up to broad and collective use among municipalities and fellow authorities.

Jacqueline van de Werken is bijna 10 jaar actief als global general counsel bij Leaseweb, na een loopbaan in de advocatuur en actief te zijn geweest in legal & regulatory affairs bij buitenlandse telecom/ datacom aanbieders.

Sinds enige tijd is Jacqueline ook board member & secretaris van brancheorganisatie Dutch Cloud Community. Als president/chair bij Cloud Infrastructure Service Providers Europe richt ze zich ook op het behartigen van regulatory belangen van de IAAS cloud sector.

Woensdag 26 november 

Van vrijwillig naar verplicht: de nieuwe werkelijkheid van regelgeving voor providers

Interactieve sessie

11:15 – 12:00 uur

Ir. Bas Dunnebier EngD

Bas Dunnebier is Chief Science and Technology Officer (CSTO) bij de Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst (AIVD). De CSTO speelt in op de kansen en uitdagingen die technologische en wetenschappelijke innovatie met zich meebrengen, onder meer voor de offensieve en defensieve taken van de dienst.

Eerder vervulde Dunnebier verschillende andere functies binnen de AIVD, waaronder die van hoofd Unit Weerbaarheid. Hij heeft daardoor een brede expertise ontwikkeld op het gebied van (cyber)weerbaarheid, inlichtingen, en technologieën zoals AI, quantum en cryptologie. Hij studeerde Toegepaste Wiskunde aan de Universiteit Twente, en Informatie- en Communicatietechnologie aan de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven. Voordat Dunnebier bij de AIVD kwam werken, werkte hij onder meer bij Thales, TNO en Technolution.

Het huidige dreigingsbeeld volgens de AIVD: wat nu te doen?

Woensdag 26 november 
14:00 – 14:35
Parkzaal: Wet- en Weerbaarheid

During his presentation, Dr. Alberto P. Martí will provide an update on the European IPCEI Cloud Infrastructure and Services (CIS) project.

Thursday, 27 November

3:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.

Parkzaal: Towards digital autonomy

During NBIP NEXT, René will share more about the implementation of the eEvidence legislation that will come into force for internet service providers on 18 August 2026.

Wednesday 26 November

3:00 p.m. – 3:35 p.m.

Parkzaal: Track Law & Resilience

During NBIP NEXT, Johan will give a presentation as part of the DDoS Mitigation track on how to use a WAF to mitigate layer 7 attacks.

Wednesday, 26 November
1:15 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Fonteinzaal: Collaborative DDoS mitigation track (ENGLISH)

Dr. Cristina Caffarra is one of the driving forces behind EuroStack. This movement, which has the ear of politicians and policymakers in Europe, is campaigning for more investment in European technology, based on the belief that this is the only path to digital autonomy.

Caffarra is a competition expert and knows the world of big tech companies from the inside. She has made important contributions to competition investigations into mergers and antitrust cases for the European Commission. Caffarra does not mince her words and tells it like it is: we must work together to give shape to European digital autonomy as quickly as possible. At NBIP NEXT, she will share her vision during an inspiring keynote speech, followed by an opportunity for discussion.

Thursday 27 November
1:15 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Parkzaal: Towards digital autonomy