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02
Jul
2020

Security Scene Blog: July Edition

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By Adair Thaxton, Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Security Engineer Happy Independence Day! With fireworks celebrations around the country being canceled, if you choose to shoot off your own fireworks, please be mindful of pets, vets, and children who are trying…

01
Jun
2020

Security Scene Blog: June Edition

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes By Adair Thaxton, Internet2 Cyberinfrastructure Security Engineer An early happy Father’s Day to those of you who are, have, or plan to become fathers to small humans, plants, or animals! Significant others, this is your reminder: June 21!…

04
May
2020

Security Scene: May Edition

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes By Adair ThaxtonInternet2 Cyberinfrastructure Security Engineer Happy … April, I think? Wait, it’s May? I’ve lost track. You may have heard about Cloudflare’s website, isbgpsafeyet.com. Their site tests whether your ISP can load a page from an…

24
Feb
2020

Feedback Requested: NET+ LastPass Major Program Update Coming

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes By Nick Lewis, Internet2 Program Manager, Security and Identity More campuses are looking to complement their existing information security and identity management efforts by adding the NET+ LastPass program, a trusted, easy-to-use password manager. The program has been…

27
Aug
2019

Internet2 Network Adds Support for IPv6 RTBH Signaling and Filtering

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes By Paul Howell, Internet2 Chief Cyberinfrastructure Security Officer Remote Triggered Blackhole Filtering (RTBH) is one among several mitigation techniques offered to the Internet2 community for mitigating Denial of Service (DoS) threats. Recently, the Internet2 network added support for…

18
Dec
2018

What Do Research Computing and Information Security Leaders Have in Common?

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes By Thomas Barton, Senior Director and Chief Information Security Officer at the University of Chicago Quite a lot, it turns out, as demonstrated at the “Enabling Trustworthy Campus Cyberinfrastructure for Science” workshop, held at the University of Maryland…