NDSS 2020: The Best in Security Research – For the Good of the Internet

On 23 February, the 27th consecutive Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) kicks off in San Diego, CA. NDSS is a premier academic research conference addressing a wide range of topics on network and system security. It’s an incubator for new, innovative ideas and research on the security and privacy of the Internet.

NDSS 2020 (23-26 February) will be one of the biggest NDSS symposium yet, featuring 88 peer-reviewed academic papers, 34 posters, 5 workshops, and 2 keynotes on vital and timely topics. Here are some of the highlights.

Workshops

This year’s program officially starts with five workshops on Sunday, 23 February. NDSS workshops are organized around a single topic and provide an opportunity for greater dialogue between researchers and practitioners in the area.

The QUIC Privacy and Security (QUIPS) Workshop focuses on QUIC security and privacy analysis efforts. The IETF QUIC protocol is a modern UDP-based, stream-multiplexing, encrypted transport protocol. Inspired by prior art, QUIC’s packet and header encryption removes cleartext information from the network while simultaneously mitigating ossification of version-specific protocol behavior. The goal of the QUIPS workshop is to bring formal analysis results to the IETF working group and developer communities in order to build confidence Continue reading

Canada’s Innovative Future Relies on Upholding Core Properties of the Capital ‘I’ Internet

As Canada considers how to renew its broadcasting and telecommunications regulatory regime, it should steer clear of recent recommendations that would impact key Internet properties that foster Canadian innovation online.

On Jan. 29 the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review (BTLR) panel handed the Canadian government 97 recommendations to consider as it prepares new legislation to update the decades-old Telecommunications Act, Radiocommunication Act and Broadcasting Act.

While it has laudable advice on how to improve access to rural and remote Indigenous communities in Canada, the report’s major flaws would inhibit the same Canadian innovation the recommendations intend to promote.

This includes giving Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) the authority to treat the Internet like a broadcasting network, and setting unrealistic rules that would harm crucial elements of the Internet in the name of promoting Canadian content online.

There are many reasons you can’t treat the Internet like a traditional broadcaster, but the key one is this: the Internet is not like other technologies.

While it is essentially just an interconnected network of networks – hence the name: Inter-net – the Internet was built with a unique set of properties that were critical to its success to date: openness, decentralization, Continue reading

Full Stack Journey 039: Career Transitions And Finding A Gap To Be An Expert With Lauren Malhoit

Today's Full Stack Journey episode features Lauren Malhoit. Lauren came up in the tech industry as a systems engineer. She's now in technical product marking at Juniper Networks. Lauren and Scott talk about career transitions, leadership vs. management, and "finding a gap where you can be an expert."

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U.S. Cellular Readies 5G Launch on March 6

U.S. Cellular is increasing capex spending in 2020 to a range of $850 million to $950 million,...

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Using your devices as the key to your apps

Using your devices as the key to your apps

I keep a very detailed budget. I have for the last 7 years. I manually input every expense into a spreadsheet app and use a combination of sumifs functions to track spending.

Opening the spreadsheet app, and then the specific spreadsheet, every time that I want to submit an expense is a little clunky. I'm working on a new project to make that easier. I'm building a simple web app, with a very basic form, into which I will enter one-off expenses. This form will then append those expenses as rows into the budget workbook.

I want to lock down this project; I prefer that I am the only person with the power to wreck my budget. To do that, I'm going to use Cloudflare Access. With Access, I can require a login to reach the page - no server-side changes required.

Except, I don't want to allow logins from any device. For this project, I want to turn my iPhone into the only device that can reach this app.

To do that, I'll use Cloudflare Access in combination with an open source toolkit from Cloudflare, cfssl. Together, I can convert my device into a secure key for this application Continue reading

DigitalOcean Grabs $300M Life Preserver

The bank debt financing comes a month after the company acknowledged that it was laying off dozens...

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Weekly Wrap: Dell Sells RSA Security Biz for $2 Billion

SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for Feb. 21, 2020: The RSA deal includes the upcoming RSA security...

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Heavy Networking 503: Achieve Multi-Domain Network Automation With Itential (Sponsored)

On today’s Heavy Networking, we talk with sponsor Itential about its network automation approach, where you can take what you’re already using (scripts, Ansible, etc.) and incorporate it into a holistic automation strategy. Itential enables automation across physical, virtual, and cloud domains and takes a low-code approach so that your engineers don’t have to become developers. Our guest is Chris Wade, Itential's co-founder and CTO.

Heavy Networking 503: Achieve Multi-Domain Network Automation With Itential (Sponsored)

On today’s Heavy Networking, we talk with sponsor Itential about its network automation approach, where you can take what you’re already using (scripts, Ansible, etc.) and incorporate it into a holistic automation strategy. Itential enables automation across physical, virtual, and cloud domains and takes a low-code approach so that your engineers don’t have to become developers. Our guest is Chris Wade, Itential's co-founder and CTO.

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Extending relational query processing with ML inference

Extending relational query processing with ML inference, Karanasos, CIDR’10

This paper provides a little more detail on the concrete work that Microsoft is doing to embed machine learning inference inside an RDBMS, as part of their vision for Enterprise Grade Machine Learning. The motivation is not that inference will perform better inside the database, but that the database is the best place to take advantage of enterprise features (transactions, security, auditing, HA, and so on). Given the desire to keep enterprise data within the database, and to treat models as data also, the question is can we do inference in the database with acceptable performance? Raven is the system that Microsoft built to explore this question, and answer it with a resounding yes.

… based on interactions with enterprise customers, we expect that storage and inference of ML models will be subject to the same scrutiny and performance requirements of sensitive/mission-critical operational data. When it comes to data, database management systems (DBMSs) have been the trusted repositories for the enterprise… We thus propose to store and serve ML models from within the DBMS…

The authors don’t just mean farming inference out to an external process from within the RDBMS, Continue reading

IDC: Chinese server sales will take a hit due to coronavirus

With virtually all of China shutdown and under quarantine due to the coronavirus, the Chinese IT hardware market will suffer a temporary but significant impact in the first quarter due to demand not being met. While foreign impact is not certain, it does have the potential to spill over into other markets.IDC now predicts the total 2020 server growth rate will be reduced from original growth projections of 12.4% to 7.4%, and Q1 sales will drop 15% from the same time period last year instead of the original projection of 16.5% growth.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] Storage 2020 growth rate will be reduced from 12.5% to 7.3% and Q1 will be down 20% instead of the original projection of 16.6% growth over Q1 2019. The 2020 networking growth rate has been reduced from the original 6.2% to 3.0%.To read this article in full, please click here

Google Cloud moves to aid mainframe migration

Google Cloud this week bought a mainframe cloud-migration service firm Cornerstone Technology with an eye toward helping Big Iron customers move workloads to the private and public cloud. Google said the Cornerstone technology – found in its G4 platform – will shape the foundation of its future mainframe-to-Google Cloud offerings and help mainframe customers modernize applications and infrastructure.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] “Through the use of automated processes, Cornerstone’s tools can break down your Cobol, PL/1, or Assembler programs into services and then make them cloud native, such as within a managed, containerized environment” wrote Howard Weale, Google’s director, Transformation Practice, in a blog about the buy.To read this article in full, please click here

Daily Roundup: Cisco Fuses IoT, ML

Cisco fused IoT and ML in its Control Center platform; Intel slashed jobs despite a record quarter;...

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NEC, Accedian Tackle 5G Network Visibility

The partnership was driven by growing network complexity and a desire from enterprises for greater...

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Japanese firm announces potential 80TB hard drives

Hard drive makers are staving off obsolescence to solid-state drives (SSDs) by offering capacities that are simply not feasible in an SSD. Seagate and Western Digital are both pushing to release 20TB hard disks in the next few years. A 20TB SSD might be doable but also cost more than a new car.But Showa Denko K.K. of Japan has gone one further with the announcement of its next-generation of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) media for hard drives. The platters use all-new magnetic thin films to maximize their data density, with the goal of eventually enabling 70TB to 80TB hard drives in a 3.5-inch form factor.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] Showa Denko is the world’s largest independent maker of platters for hard drives, selling them to basically anyone left making hard drives not named Seagate and Western Digital. Those two make their own platters and are working on their own next-generation drives for release in the coming years.While similar in concept, Seagate and Western Digital have chosen different solutions to the same problem. HAMR, championed by Seagate and Showa, works by temporarily heating the disk material during the write Continue reading

Japanese firm announces potential 80TB hard drives

Hard drive makers are staving off obsolescence to solid-state drives (SSDs) by offering capacities that are simply not feasible in an SSD. Seagate and Western Digital are both pushing to release 20TB hard disks in the next few years. A 20TB SSD might be doable but also cost more than a new car.But Showa Denko K.K. of Japan has gone one further with the announcement of its next-generation of heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) media for hard drives. The platters use all-new magnetic thin films to maximize their data density, with the goal of eventually enabling 70TB to 80TB hard drives in a 3.5-inch form factor.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] Showa Denko is the world’s largest independent maker of platters for hard drives, selling them to basically anyone left making hard drives not named Seagate and Western Digital. Those two make their own platters and are working on their own next-generation drives for release in the coming years.While similar in concept, Seagate and Western Digital have chosen different solutions to the same problem. HAMR, championed by Seagate and Showa, works by temporarily heating the disk material during the write Continue reading

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