Denial of Service attacks, where high-profile websites are overwhelmed with a flood of traffic from compromised machines on the Internet, are becoming a real problem for UK business and government. Organised criminals are getting involved, using the threat of attacks to extort large sums of money from a range of organisations in the UK and overseas. How can business, IT professionals, Internet Service Providers and government work together to stop these attacks?

This workshop will bring together a range of experts to discuss technical, legal, regulatory and contractual measures that would have a real effect in reducing Denial of Service attacks on-line. Come along to hear and debate the latest thinking on effective mechanisms to protect your organisation's operations on the Internet.

This workshop is run by the Communications Research Network Critical Infrastructure Protection working group.

Agenda

1.30	Welcome and aims Dr Ian Brown, Communications Research Network Geoff Smith, DTI
1.40	How can we make the Internet architecture more DoS-resistant? Prof Mark Handley (UCL) Prof Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge University)
2.10	Economic incentives to reduce "bad" traffic Carla Di Cairano-Gilfedder (BT)
2.40	Contractual terms between ISPs and customers Dr Richard Clayton (Cambridge University)
3.10	Coffee
3.40	Legal and regulatory options Chris Marsden (RAND Europe) Prof Lilian Edwards (Southampton University) DTI and Office of Fair Trading
4.40	Audience debate
5.15	Close