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2024

September 20th, 2024. According to our traffic report, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini are helping new users to find Gatekeeper. Curious about what Large Language Models talk about Gatekeeper? Listen to this 10-minute podcast that Gemini created to summarize the content available on our wiki.

September 5th, 2024. The second release candidate of version 1.2 of Gatekeeper is out. If you have a deployment in production, now is the time to prepare for the final release of version 1.2.

August 5th, 2024. You no longer need to figure out Gatekeeper on your own. Starting today, Digirati is offering Gatekeeper consultancy. This offer is ideal for those who want to deploy Gatekeeper in a timely manner and leverage Digirati's accumulated experience with Gatekeeper in production.

June 5th, 2024. The first release candidate of version 1.2 of Gatekeeper is out. If you have a deployment in production, now is the time to test and prepare for an eventual upgrade of your deployment.

2023

November 9th, 2023. Given all the innovations in Gatekeeper, it is no surprise when a newcomer misses the forest for the trees while they are still building their testbeds. That is why seeing through the eyes of deployers offers insights. In a comment, a deployer highlighted in his words how Gatekeeper's capacity of tracking billions of flows translates into more effective protection.

August 3rd, 2023. DPDK featured Gatekeeper as one of their user stories.

July 27th, 2023. DPDK has recognized Gatekeeper as part of their ecosystem. We are grateful for this recognition because DPDK has been essential to Gatekeeper.

April 5th, 2023. Gatekeeper v1.1 is officially out! Thanks to our partners, the release candidates of this version have been handling production traffic since the Summer of 2022.

2022

December 8th, 2022. A one-minute introduction of our project. This video is part of our application for GitHub Accelerator.

November 29th, 2022. The second release candidate of version 1.1 of Gatekeeper is out. This release includes most of the feedback we received from deployers and has been running in production for about a month now.

September 8th, 2022. Napatech, a manufacturer of SmartNICs, is working to make their NICs tightly coupled with Gatekeeper. The beta of this integration should be out by the end of this year.

July 14th, 2022. A Gatekeeper deployer needed to reboot one of their Grantor servers today to move it to another subnet. Before rebooting the Grantor server, they queried for how long it has been running with the command systemctl status gatekeeper | grep since. The answer: "Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-09-15 21:17:47 UTC; 9 months 27 days ago"; almost 10 months straight!

June 7th, 2022. The first release candidate of version 1.1 of Gatekeeper is out. This release updates Gatekeeper's custom versions of DPDK and LuaJIT, enhances the log subsystem, and includes several small improvements. See the description of this release for details. If you have a deployment in production, now is the time to test and prepare for an eventual upgrade of your deployment.

March 3rd, 2022. Our presentation at APRICOT 2022 is now available on YouTube. Download the slides.

February 7th, 2022. We are going to present Gatekeeper at APRICOT 2022. We look forward to meeting some of the members of our community in the Asia Pacific region.

2021

October 26th, 2021. Gatekeeper has made to the top of the second page on GitHub of all the repositories related to DDoS with 639 stars. Of the 10 repositories on the first page, only 4 are dedicated to protecting against DDoS attacks. We have a long road ahead of us to eradicate DDoS attacks, and support from the community is essential to get there. Exactly one year ago, you put Gatekeeper on the top of the third page, and today you showed that you are committed to pushing it further. Thank you!

October 4th, 2021. Kaspersky recommends Gatekeeper for companies looking for DDoS protection on a budget. Kaspersky recommends Gatekeeper depending on how you answer the quiz on their page. While taking the quiz will give you personalized advice, if you must skip it, check out the source code of their page.

September 30th, 2021. We have posted a technical report that describes a potential application of Gatekeeper for circumventing large-scale link attacks using the cloud. All of our publications and presentations are available on the Publications page.

September 15th, 2021. After 6 years of research and development, minting 2 PhDs, presenting at 2 professional conferences, and addressing the feedback from 2 pioneer deployments, the first stable version of Gatekeeper is out!

June 22nd, 2021. Our presentation at NANOG 82 on 14th is now available on YouTube. Download the slides.

June 9th, 2021. We just posted a technical report that gives a 12-page overview of the Gatekeeper architecture, implementation, and evaluation. It is a good introduction to Gatekeeper because it balances high-level insights with technical details.

May 20th, 2021. We are going to present Gatekeeper at NANOG 82. It's going to be a great opportunity to learn about Gatekeeper from a practical perspective and to ask questions to our team.

February 4th, 2021. Cody Doucette's Ph.D. thesis, "An architectural approach for mitigating next-generation denial of service attacks," is now available here. The thesis presents an overview of Gatekeeper and includes information about how to write destination policies.

2020

December 3rd, 2020. Cody Doucette, a member of our team, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis: an architectural approach for mitigating next-generation denial of service attacks. The presentation is an excellent introduction to Gatekeeper for those that want a deep understanding of Gatekeeper and insights into where it is going (slides available). On behalf of our whole team, congratulations to Dr. Doucette, and thank you for your contributions.

November 30th, 2020. We presented Gatekeeper at GTER 49 | GTS 35. Watch the presentation and download the slides. Although the slides are in English, the presentation is in Portuguese.

November 3rd, 2020. The second release candidate of Gatekeeper 1.0.0 is out. This release candidate addresses a number of small issues, bugs, and needs identified during tests of the first release candidate in production.

October 26th, 2020. Gatekeeper has made to the top of the third page on GitHub of all the repositories related to DDoS; many, if not most, repositories in this list are attack tools. There is still a long way to go to the top of the first page, but we are already grateful to have received your stars. Thank you very much to all stargazers!

October 12th, 2020. Alexander Pavlov, deputy director for network operations at Mail.ru, presented at the conference NextHop 2020 how they fight DDoS at Mail.ru. Watch the presentation in English to see how Gatekeeper is being used in production.

April 27th, 2020. Qiaobin Fu, a member of our team, successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis: high-performance software packet processing. His thesis presents many techniques that have been employed as well as some that will eventually be employed in Gatekeeper to make it go faster. On behalf of our whole team, congratulations to Dr. Fu, and thank you for your contributions.

April 2nd, 2020. The first release candidate of the first stable version of Gatekeeper is out.