Defending Europe against DDoS in a multi-polar world#

Octavia de Weerdt - NBIP Foundation

• Why: DDoS defense is squarely in the PM's network-security remit, and this is a practitioner's view of how European defensive coordination is holding up as geopolitics fragment the old assumptions. It is also a rare operator talk about collective defense — scrubbing and mitigation as shared infrastructure — rather than a box to buy.
• What: A talk on defending European networks against DDoS in a "multi-polar world" — the framing implies a shift from treating DDoS as a generic nuisance to treating it as a geopolitical threat with national/European-scale response structures. (No abstract published — from title and speaker only.)
• How: Not stated in the program. Context: the speaker is from NBIP Foundation, the Dutch not-for-profit known for operating the shared NaWas scrubbing service; expect the mechanics of cooperative scrubbing and member-driven defense to be the likely substance.
• Where applicable: European operator/internet-infrastructure environments; the collective-scrubbing model presumes a community of connected networks and national coordination. Broadly transferable to any multi-tenant mitigation effort; the geopolitical framing is Europe-specific. No abstract published; treat this write-up as title-level only.