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Sep
2023
By Andrew Gallo, Principal IT Architect, The George Washington University Estimated reading time: 7 minutes This blog post is submitted by Internet2 community member Andrew Gallo, Principal IT Architect at The George Washington University. Viewpoints expressed in this post are those of the…
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Aug
2023
By Nick Lewis
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes One of the best parts of my job is to engage with the community on their best ideas and challenges. I get to do this through program committees, working groups, meetings, and day-to-day interactions with community members. This…
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Aug
2023
By Steven Wallace
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Seventy-four. That’s the number of organizations across the U.S. research and education community that have taken action to secure their legacy network resources since the start of 2023. Those 74 organizations include universities, colleges, supercomputing centers, K-12 schools,…
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Aug
2023
By Kyle Lewis, Chair, Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group Estimated reading time: 3 minutes To continue increasing cross-federation levels of trust in cybersecurity, InCommon is hosting its second annual community Sirtfi cybersecurity exercise this fall. Sirtfi is part of…
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May
2023
By Steven Wallace, Director of Internet2 Routing Integrity, and Andrew Gallo, Principal Network Architect at George Washington University
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Defending against distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks while maintaining support for data-intensive science can present new challenges for network operators in the research and education (R&E) community. R&E networks at the state, regional, national, and global levels are…
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May
2023
By Kyle Lewis, Co-Chair, Sirtfi Exercise Planning Working Group
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes How can we help your team enhance its knowledge and use of the Sirtfi framework, so you’re prepared to cooperate if and when a cybersecurity incident spans multiple organizations in the research and education community? That’s the main…
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Apr
2023
By Steven Wallace
Estimated reading time: 4 minutes As early adopters of internet technology, many network operators in the research and education (R&E) community use IP numbers allocated to them before ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers) came into existence. ARIN is one of the five…
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Feb
2023
By Steven Wallace
An increasing number of network providers are implementing Resource Public Key Infrastructure Route Origin Validation (RPKI-ROV) to identify and mitigate false routing information that might arise by accident or attempted route hijacking. This trend includes Internet Service Providers and non-profit organizations like Internet2 that provide connectivity for the research and…
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Jan
2023
By Amber Rasche
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes A Q&A with Bill Owens, NYSERNet We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Routing integrity is an end-to-end challenge that requires the participation of the entire Internet2-networked community and beyond. So, what does that mean? It’s in…
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Oct
2022
By Adair Thaxton
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes Internet2 is in the process of renewing our DDoS mitigation service contract with Radware. Since we originally signed on with Radware in December 2019, 12 Internet2 Connectors have used the Radware service to protect more than 100…
