Hacking Web Servers to Make Them More Secure and Faster Using Open Standards

Dan York Tuesday, July 28, 2020: 1500. So how can you be out there promoting open standards like TLS and IPv6 if your own websites don't support these standards? Shouldn't there be step-by-step recipes out there (or default configurations) that just...

Dan York

Tuesday, July 28, 2020: 1500. So how can you be out there promoting open standards like TLS and IPv6 if your own websites don't support these standards? Shouldn't there be step-by-step recipes out there (or default configurations) that just make this easy? In this talk, Dan will dive into how the Internet Society fixed its multiple websites, and discovered how it could make these sites faster and more secure with some easy changes to the site configuration. He will share the crowd-sourced documentation that the project team has developed for self-hosted web servers, hosted servers, and sites using content delivery networks (CDNs), and will outline how you can help contribute to this project. He'll cover how to implement HTTP/2, IPv6, TLS, HSTS, and DNSSEC - and provide the recipes his project team used. If we want an open Internet where we don't need permission to deploy new services and systems, the Internet needs to be based on interoperable, open Internet standards. Join us in helping build a more secure and available Internet for everyone!