@inproceedings{hnbkh-adeci-24,
  author = {Raphael Hiesgen and Marcin Nawrocki and Marinho Barcellos and Daniel Kopp and Oliver Hohlfeld and Echo Chan and Roland Dobbins and Christian Doerr and Christian Rossow and Daniel R. Thomas and Mattijs Jonker and Ricky Mok and Xiapu Luo and John Kristoff and Thomas C. Schmidt and Matthias W{\"a}hlisch and kc claffy},
  title = {{The Age of DDoScovery: An Empirical Comparison of Industry and Academic DDoS Assessments}},
  booktitle = {Proc. of ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)},
  pages = {259--279},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address = {New York},
  abstract = {Motivated by the impressive but diffuse scope of DDoS research and reporting, we undertake a multistakeholder (joint industry-academic) analysis to seek convergence across the best available macroscopic views of the relative trends in two dominant classes of attacks -- direct-path attacks and reflection-amplification attacks. We first analyze 24 industry reports to extract trends and (in)consistencies across observations by commercial stakeholders in 2022. We then analyze nine data sets spanning industry and academic sources, across four years (2019-2023), to find and explain discrepancies based on data sources, vantage points, methods, and parameters. Our method includes a new approach: we share an aggregated list of DDoS targets with industry players who return the results of joining this list with their proprietary data sources to reveal gaps in visibility of the academic data sources. We use academic data sources to explore an industry-reported relative drop in spoofed reflection-amplification attacks in 2021-2022. Our study illustrates the value, but also the challenge, in independent validation of security-related properties of Internet infrastructure. Finally, we reflect on opportunities to facilitate greater common understanding of the DDoS landscape. We hope our results inform not only future academic and industry pursuits but also emerging policy efforts to reduce systemic Internet security vulnerabilities.},
  file = {../papers/hnbkh-adeci-24.pdf},
  doi = {10.1145/3646547.3688451},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3646547.3688451},
  slides = {../slides/hnbkh-adeci-24-slides.pdf},
  video = {},
  theme = {nsec|imeasurement},
  code = {https://ddoscovery.github.io},
}