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Re: Anyone ever heard of these people?
»www.networkworld.com/news/2003/0···l?page=2
Essentials on Internet2
A few fast facts on the Internet2 project:
• The educational and experimental network began in 1996.
• 203 universities participate.
• This group spends at least $100 million annually on the project.
• There are 50 corporate members that have invested more than $30 million since 1996.
• Network upgrade to 10G bit/sec is nearly complete.
• The movie “The Matrix” can be downloaded in 30 seconds, according to Internet2’s land speed record test.
• It takes 25 hours for the same movie to be downloaded over a DSL.
The group also now has the ability to capture and examine each flow across the network. While the ability to examine traffic closely from all universities has raised security and privacy concerns, Corbato says the group is "very careful with this data. We're looking to see what's happening over the network in real-time, what applications are most popular and the average duration of a data flow."
The group also is dedicated to advancing Internet security. In February, Internet2's Research and Education Network Information Sharing Analysis Center (REN-ISAC) joined the Department of Homeland Security's national information sharing and analysis center group.
"REN-ISAC is a higher-education-sponsored center designed to help universities and colleges improve their security," says Mark Bruhn, acting director of REN-ISAC at Indiana University. The program also lets higher education do its part in securing the national cyberinfrastructure, he says.
Indiana University operates REN-ISAC to monitor security threats and events, such as denial-of-service attacks, in real time. The center not only immediately notifies victims and sources,, but it also shares this information with other universities to help them better secure their networks.
REN-ISAC, now that it's part of the national ISAC program, can exchange findings with other centers. When the federal government initially formed the national sharing program, higher education was not included, which was a mistake, as far as the Internet2 people were concerned.
REN-ISAC Research and Education Network-Information Sharing Analysis Center
»www.indiana.edu/~ocmhp/031403/te···ter.html
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Educational read, *no pun* though.
I wonder what/ how they capture packets, and interpret them. By Ethereal on a computer, or is it via a router especially designed for this project ?
If it does come to the general public, what a test bed, the youth of today.
But the one downfall I can see with this; what off people that leave and become a 'black hat', can they guarantee this.
Sorry for this line of thought MackyGA, but you can't help but question how good, how bad such a move will make.
Guess as it's in trial, the general public won't get much till they at least know it's capabilities.
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| REN-ISAC is totally legit, they do very good work, and are quietly working very hard to keep the internet clean. I know senior staff there, and there is z-e-r-o worry about black hat crap; I'd trust them with the most sensitive security information I have (I have, as a matter of fact).
They're the good guys.
Steve
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said by norwegian  :Educational read, *no pun* though. I wonder what/ how they capture packets, and interpret them. By Ethereal on a computer, or is it via a router especially designed for this project ? If it does come to the general public, what a test bed, the youth of today. But the one downfall I can see with this; what off people that leave and become a 'black hat', can they guarantee this. Sorry for this line of thought MackyGA, but you can't help but question how good, how bad such a move will make. Guess as it's in trial, the general public won't get much till they at least know it's capabilities. Sounds promising. This might give you an idea of "how" they do it...and some of the things they have done in the past to help control worms and other bad boys..
@MackyGA
REN-ISAC is not after your money..can you tell us what kind of "multiple virus" you found on that laptop by name?
»www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&···G=Search
REN-ISAC W32/Blaster debrief as of 2000 GMT Fri Aug 15 2003
The REN-ISAC[1] and the IU Advanced Network Management Lab (ANML[2]) are continuing to perform analysis of Abilene NetFlow data to characterize W32/Blaster activity. A sample during the period 1200-1500 GMT Thursday August 14 was used to identify top network AS sources of port 135 scans on Abilene. Within the top-twenty list, six AS were repeats from the August 14 top twenty. E-mail notifications were sent to the network contacts, including 18 U.S. universities, and 2 U.S. GigaPoP/aggregates.
»listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa···&P=11463
»ren-isac.net/monitoring.cgi
Abilene NetFlow data
»www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&···G=Search
The Abilene Observatory
»abilene.internet2.edu/observator···ess.html
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