Richard Meeus

VP of Technology, EMEA, NSFocus

Meeus brings to NSFocus IB more than 10 years of experience in both appliance and cloud based services. In addition to evangelizing the NSFOCUS brand and products and integrating products and services on both a global basis and within EMEA, he is also responsible for leading the pre-sales team. Previously, Meeus was at Akamai for more than two years, where he led the security pre-sales team, EMEA and dealt primarily with cloud based DDOS and WAF services. In addition, he has held senior engineering and technical sales positions at Prolexic, CriticalPath, and Mirapoint Software.

DDoS and the Era of Cyber Extortion

Presented by Richard Meeus • November 9, 2016

Cyber-extortion has reached new proportions, with a wide variety of methods, such as distributed-denial-of-service attacks and ransomware variants being used to extort individuals and organizations. Recently uncovered ransomware-DDoS hybrid attacks, like Cerber, showcased how attackers have added DDoS capabilities to...