Collaborative Network Security:Targeting Wide-Area Routing & Edge-network Attack
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Presentation description:
To ensure that services can be delivered reliably and continuously over the Internet, it is important that both Internet routes and edge networks are secured. However, the sophistication and distributed nature of many attacks that target wide-area routing and edge networks make it difficult for an individual network, user, or router to detect these attacks. Therefore collaboration is important. Although the benefits of collaboration between different network entities have been demonstrated, many open questions still remain, including how to best design distributed scalable mechanisms to mitigate attacks on the network infrastructure. In this talk I will give basic information about distributed system such as interdomain routing protocol and explain how these protocol work and explain how the vulnerabilities in this protocol can be exploited to mount different attacks. I will present current state of art in securing the interdomain routing I will also explain how large-scale data can be analyzed to detect attacks on such distributed systems. I will also present some of my research contributions in this area. In particular I will present interesting results from my post-mortem of the large-scale routing attack mounted by the China Telecom in 2010. This work has been published in high impact conference and has consistently been cited by top researchers in this area.
Pre-requisites for attendees:
Basic knowledge of networking.
Target audience:
Professionals working in security area, networking area, data analysts, and project managers can attend and will find this presentation interesting.
Spearker Bio:
Dr. Rahul Hiran has completed his PhD at Linköping University (one of the top 400 or one of the top 250 universities in the world depending on if one looks at Times higher education ranking or Shanghai world ranking). His research focused on using data analysis techniques to identify and raise alerts for attacks on the distributed systems. He has published papers in several well-known and highly rated international conferences. The list of his publications is available at
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=W3WQXZ4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao.
One of his research papers has been consistently cited by top security researchers over the years. Rahul has received his Bachelors in Engineering (In Computer Science) from Maharashtra Institute of Technology under the aegis of University of Pune. He then worked as Software Developer in VarIT Information Technology Pvt. Ltd. and Persistent systems for over 2 years. Rahul then got an opportunity to pursue MS from Linköping University in Sweden. During his studies he got interested in security and networking area and ended up pursuing his PhD degree that combines these two interests. While doing his PhD, Rahul has also got interested in large-scale data analysis.