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SUMMARY:A Cyber Security Lab:  from teaching\, to a security evaluation pl
 atform\, to a novel configuration management paradigm? - Olaf Maennel (Lou
 ghborough University)
DTSTART:20140220T150000Z
DTEND:20140220T160000Z
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:The Internet has become part of our critical communication inf
 rastructure and has revolutionised the lives of many people. However\, sec
 urity in cyberspace is still an underdeveloped field. This is for many rea
 sons\, but one of them is that the Internet was developed without a clear 
 security concept in mind and another is that it is now lucrative for crimi
 nals to find security holes.  Overall\, cyber security is a critical skill
  for everyone using the Internet.\n \nWe start this talk by discussing how
  a potential cyber-security training course at a University may look like.
   Practical hands-on training courses have proven very valuable in teachin
 g basic concepts\, but it’s hard to setup and prepare high-quality cours
 es.  Among the problems is that each lab needs a realistic environment\, c
 onfigured with a magnitude of services and consisting of complex network t
 echnology.  To recognise the true value of such labs\, we need to reduce t
 he complexity of building\, configuring\, deploying and monitoring those e
 mulated networks.  \n \nWe argue that this can be achieved by translation 
 from a high-level network design into a concrete set of router and service
  configurations that automatically deploy onto several emulation platforms
 . This creates the required complexity\, while keeping it manageable.\nWe 
 will then continue to show that such a system is not only be beneficial fo
 r teaching cyber security\, but can also be used as a large-scale security
  evaluation platform that studies novel technology in the context of a rea
 listic network environment.  We illustrate our ideas at an example that is
  designed to study the scaling properties of the Resource Public Key Infra
 structure (RPKI).\nWe conclude by outlining how such a high-level configur
 ation framework may change how networks are configured in the future and t
 hus lead towards an Internet design that has a security concept in mind.\n
 \nBio: Olaf Maennel is a lecturer at Loughborough University. His interest
 s are in computer networks\, focusing on: network security\, routing\, mea
 surements\, IPv6\, as well as topology modelling and configuration managem
 ent. He obtained his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in computer science from the Te
 chnical University of Munich\, Germany\, in the group of Anja Feldmann in 
 2005 and did a Post-Doc at Adelaide University in Australia with Matthew R
 oughan. \n
LOCATION:SS03\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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