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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.