Name: Campus Under Pressure: Practical DDoS and Application Security Readiness for Research and Education Networks
Start: 2026-06-23T08:45:00-0500
End: 2026-06-23T09:30:00-0500

Welcome to the GPN & ARE-ON Joint Conference 2026 schedule. Use this page to browse sessions, view speaker and session details, and build your personal agenda for June 22–24 in Rogers, Arkansas. Check back through May as additional sessions and details are added.

Campus Under Pressure: Practical DDoS and Application Security Readiness for Research and Education Networks

Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:45am - 9:30am CDT

Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Ambassador C

Research and education networks are built to be open, collaborative, and high-performing, which also makes availability protection uniquely challenging. This session will walk through practical DDoS and application security readiness for higher education and regional networks, using real-world incident lessons and an operational decision framework attendees can take back to campus. We will cover how modern attacks combine volumetric floods, DNS pressure, application-layer disruption, bots, and API abuse; what teams should know before an incident; how to structure the first 15 minutes of response; and how shared infrastructure and Internet2-aligned services can improve resilience across member institutions.

Speakers

Geoff Kreiling

Director, MSSP Routes to Market, Radware

I help connected institutions think through service continuity, DDoS, AppSec, APIs, and shared-infrastructure readiness.

Talk to me about keeping critical services online, clarifying who owns what, improving response handoffs, making incidents less chaotic before they happen, or what record I’m currently wearing out at home... Read More →

Sponsors

Radware

Radware’s provides end-to-end coverage across DDoS mitigation, WAF, bot management, and our enhanced API Security Service, which provides full lifecycle security based on runtime traffic. Our innovative LLM Firewall protects against prompt injection, data leakage and abuse, while... Read More →

Tuesday June 23, 2026 8:45am - 9:30am CDT
Embassy Suites Conv. Center - Ambassador C 3303 Pinnacle Hills Pkwy, Rogers, AR 72758-8936

Sponsor Session, Gigabit

Audience Network Engineers
Subject Infrastructure, Security & Operations

GPN & ARE-ON Joint Conference 2026

Geoff Kreiling

Radware

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