Steinthor Bjarnason
Principal Engineer
Steinthor Bjarnason is a Principal Security Engineer on the NETSCOUT’s ASERT team, performing applied research on new technologies and solutions to defend against DDoS attacks with specific focus on automated DDoS detection and mitigation. Steinthor has been an active participant in the IT industry for more than 36 years, with primary focus on Internet Security, Cloud Security, SDN Security, Core Network Security and DDoS attack mitigation.
Steinthor is an active inventor, currently holding more than 10 patents within the areas of Security Automation and DDoS Detection/Mitigation. In addition he is a co-author of IETF RFC7575 and RFC8994 and holds a CCIE Security certification.
Blog Posts
- —Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations - January 2021
- —Lazarus Bear Armada DDoS Extortion Campaign — December 2020
- —High-Profile DDoS Extortion Attacks — September 2020
- —Evolution of a New DDoS Technique
- —The Next Big DDoS Event Is Just Around the Corner. Or Is It?
- —Innovation and Product Development Is Accelerating—On the Wrong Side
- —Was Memcached a Turning Point?
- —DDoS Attacks Hit Hard in September
- —A Call to ARMS: Apple Remote Management Service UDP Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attacks