Many users will access the site these days and not everyone might have good intentions

Apr 10, 2013 07:53 GMT  ·  By

We’re in Amsterdam for the 2013 edition of the Hack in the Box (HITB) conference. A lot of great speakers will present their findings on some highly interesting topics so it’s likely that the HITB website will get a lot of visitors these days.

That’s why the organizers of the event have contracted Incapsula, the cloud-based website security and performance solutions provider, to protect the official HITB website from excessive traffic, as well as coordinated external attacks and distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks.

“After having our conference website 'DDoS itself' from the sheer volume of traffic last year, surrounding the fervor of headline talks including the Absinthe iOS jailbreak, we decided Incapsula's solution was just what we need,” said Dhillon Andrew Kannabhiran, founder and chief executive officer for Hack In The Box.

“Now with the Evad3rs and over 400 hackers expected to gather at #HITB2013AMS next week, we're not taking any chances. Since signing up we've already seen a reduction in network and server loads.”

“We are very excited for the opportunity to support HITB. As part of the security community, we can appreciate the importance of such meetings of the minds, that bring together emerging hackers, established security experts and non-security vendors, and allow them to efficiently exchange information on common terms.” said Gur Shatz, CEO of Incapsula.

“Security evolution is nourished by collaboration, free exchange of ideas and this is where such innovation blooms,” added Shatz.

We’ll attend some of the presentations made here at HITB 2013 Amsterdam and hopefully we’ll be able to do some interviews.

Edward Schwartz, chief information security officer at RSA, has held an interesting talk on “Embracing the Uncertainty of Advanced Hacks with Big Data Analytics.”

Later today, on the first day of the conference, attendees will learn about vulnerabilities in DSLR cameras, Dutch alarm systems, and even ones that plague aircrafts.