State under siege: How Estonia stopped Russia’s DDoS campaigns
Presented by: Brian Carter, Jaagup Toome, Jacob Crisp, Jürgen Tamm
Originally aired on October 23 @ 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
Estonia knows what nation-state DDoS looks like. As Russia’s aggression has intensified, Estonian government websites, media, and critical public services have faced sustained, politically timed volumetric attacks designed to paralyze Estonian society. In the first half of 2026, Cloudflare observed a surge in attacks exceeding 1 Tbps, with DNS floods emerging as the dominant vector and geopolitical flashpoints driving campaign timing. In this panel discussion, Estonia’s Information System Authority shares how it built a proactive national cyber defense posture with Cloudflare’s global network and threat intelligence and what defenders everywhere can learn from a country that has been on the front line a long time.
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