Ping of death, mass mail bombings, email attachment virii, SYN/ACK floods, what services are vulnerable, and what can be hardened? This talk will focus on what the threat is, how to detect an attack and how to prepare a defense. Sluggo is currently working for a large corporation dealing in information security, and specializes in network attack methods and defenses, policy development and social engineering. He has consulted for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, NATO, and miscellaneous agencies of the US Government.