Internet2 2003 Annual Report
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Members Rise to Meet Challenges of Ensuring Network Security
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Internet2 member organizations are facing
the growing challenges of protecting their
network infrastructures from threats and
attacks such as the ones that made headlines
during the summer of 2003. At the same time,
it remains essential to provide the advanced
applications communities with network
capabilities that support their research and
work. It is therefore progressively more critical,
though increasingly difficult, to link the
performance requirements of advanced,
networked applications with essential network
security.
To address this mix of network security and
performance issues, invited participants
attended a National Science Foundation sponsored
Security at Line Speed (S@LS)
Workshop held in August in Chicago.
The workshop was hosted with the support
of Internet2, Indiana University, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and
the University of Washington, with additional
assistance from the EDUCAUSE/Internet2
Computer and Network Security Task Force.
Participants, including attendees representing
Internet2 Corporate Partners Cisco
Systems and Juniper Networks, and Internet2
corporate member Network Associates, discussed
how to implement necessary network
security without compromising network
performance. Participants discussed and
recommended:
- Technologies supporting performance
and transparency at line speed
- Effective implementation practices
- Areas
for future research on network security
- Non-technical aspects critical to research
computing and network security
Several key actions resulted from the S@LS
Workshop, including the draft of the S@LS
Workshop findings report, the formation of
the Security at Line Speed Advisory (SALSA),
a technical steering committee, and the anticipation
of a number of Working Groups under
the steering committee, which will cover
issues such as network authentication and
authorization, and advanced security architecture.
The report contains the workshop’s
preliminary findings, including:
- Approaches and technologies that simultaneously
support security and performance
- Case studies on how these
technologies and approaches can be implemented
- Planning for high-performance security
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