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21
Sep
2023

From the Community Security

Community Takeaways From FCC Routing Security Workshop

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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23
Aug
2023

Security TechEX

Information Security Sessions at TechEx Offer Ideas and Insight

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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22
Aug
2023

Advanced Networking Security

Goals Turn Into Action as Community Works to Secure Legacy Networks Before Year-End

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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25
May
2023

Security Advanced Networking

Your Routing, Your Decision: How to Support Data-Intensive Researchers While Fending Off DDoS Attacks

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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28
Feb
2023

Advanced Networking Security

Preparing for Resource Public Key Infrastructure Route Origin Validation

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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25
Oct
2022

Security

Radware DDoS Mitigation Alert Analysis

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…

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