FastNetMon attended Taiwan Internet Week 2026 and TWNOG 7 in Taipei on 12–15 May 2026.
It was a great week filled with impromptu meetings, technical discussions, catching up with friends, and conversations about where DDoS defence and network security are heading next.
Taiwan Internet Week
On 14 May, Pavel Odintsov joined the Taiwan Internet Week panel discussion:
“NIS2 Directive and beyond: Resilience in Digital Landscape”
The session focused on the operational and compliance challenges introduced by the EU NIS2 Directive and how organisations are adapting to a much stricter cybersecurity and reporting environment.
The discussion covered key NIS2 requirements, including tighter classification of Essential and Important Entities, 24-hour incident reporting obligations, enhanced identity verification requirements under Article 28, and increased accountability at the management level.
A major theme throughout the panel was the growing expectation that organisations must demonstrate operational resilience in practice, not just through policy documentation. For network operators and security teams, that means faster detection, better visibility, more mature incident response workflows, and the ability to produce reliable reporting under tight timelines.
The panel also explored the practical tension between GDPR privacy requirements and NIS2 transparency obligations, especially when organisations need to rapidly share information during active security incidents.
The session was moderated by Joy Chan, Deputy CEO of TWNIC, and featured panellists Pavel Odintsov from FastNetMon, Léo Gaillard from National Institute for Cybersecurity Research, Alexandre from Formind, Daniel (IT Contract Manager), and Alex Leung from Akamai.
The panel brought together perspectives from network security, infrastructure operations, compliance, and cybersecurity research, leading to a very practical discussion about how regulatory requirements are increasingly shaping day-to-day operational realities for technical teams.
TWNOG 7
On 15 May, Pavel presented at TWNOG 7 with a talk titled:
“Challenges of DDoS Detection on Terabit scale”
The presentation was based on real deployment experience building DDoS detection systems for very large ISP environments operating at a terabit scale.
The talk covered challenges, including:
- handling telemetry rates above 50,000 UDP packets per second
- processing inline monitoring data from Juniper MX and PTX platforms
- dealing with double- and triple-tagged VLANs
- differences in telemetry implementations between platforms
- Linux kernel limitations around UDP socket scaling
- eBPF-based load balancing approaches
- achieving near real-time DDoS detection at very high traffic volumes
A big part of the session focused on operational realities rather than theory — the kind of issues engineers usually only encounter once traffic volumes become large enough.
Some of the most interesting discussions after the presentation were around telemetry processing bottlenecks, kernel behaviour under heavy UDP workloads, and the unexpected edge cases that appear when trying to build reliable, high-performance monitoring systems. See the presentation slides below!
Great discussions and new connections
TWNOG turned out to be one of the best places to talk directly with engineers running large production networks across the region.
Pavel from the FastNetMon team had a great time meeting both long-time industry contacts and many new people during the week. As always, some of the best conversations happened outside the conference rooms — discussing operational challenges, deployment experiences, routing, telemetry, DDoS attacks, and infrastructure scaling over coffee and hallway chats.
And naturally, all remaining spare time was spent exploring Taipei’s famous electronics districts!
Thank you, Taiwan Internet Week & TWNOG
A big thank you to the organisers, speakers, volunteers, and everyone wo took the time to discuss with us during the week.
We especially want to thank Joy Chan and Nai-Wen Hsu for the kind invitation and for organising such a well-run event bringing together operators, engineers, and security professionals from across the region.
Taiwan Internet Week and TWNOG created an excellent environment for open technical discussions and knowledge sharing, and we were very happy to be part of it.
We look forward to joining again in the future.
