Protecting your websites against bad bots and attackers with Proof of Work using Anubis
This talk is about Anubis: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
An implementation of Proof of Work which is used for securing websites against bad bots and attackers. In a world full of AI bots, cyber warfare and so on, this is more important than ever.
This talk is for anyone who hosts their own website or web service. Everyone very likely had to deal with attackers and blocking their IPs, user-agents and so on (probably with tools like Fail2ban). Anubis is a rather straight forward solution without time-intensive configuration and without blocking users completely. So get your precious time back and make your website bot-proof for the 21st century!
The audience get information about a state-of-the-art tool for protecting websites. I will cover the following:
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general description about the increasing bot/attack problem
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explanation of what Proof of Work is
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an introduction into Anubis and how it works
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a bit of configuration details of Anubis
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live demonstration
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Q&A