OMG DDoS - Drupal lessons learned the hard way

A distributed denial of service attack can be a painful and costly thing these days. With #hacktivism on the rise who knows when and if your Drupal site could soon be a target.

I'll cover

• Rapid expansion plans
• CDN configurations
• ModSecurity tricks
• Drupal best practices
• Other high traffic events

Since this is an advanced session, I'll fire up the terminal, turn on some VMs, and really get into some practical examples in 'real life' live demo form.