DRDoS Attacks: Latest Threats and Countermeasures
In a distributed reflective denial-of-service (DRDoS) attack, requests are sent to to unsecured public servers such as DNS resolvers and NTP servers, spoofing the IP address of a victim. The servers in turn flood the vic..
Fiber Building: Environmental and Practical Considerations
Merit's recent extensive statewide fiber builds have required extensive route planning, permitting, environmental review and crew oversight to comply with local, state and federal requirements. Andrea Kline, environmenta..
Incident Response - Are You Ready?
Hardly a day goes by without the report of a new security breach. Servers are hacked, malware infects systems, laptops are stolen, thumb drives are lost, and confidential documents find their way onto the web. Have any o..
MJTS-October 23, 2014-Panel on Wireless Projects
Alok Vimawala, University of Michigan, and John Marra, Northern Michigan University, speak about their campus wireless projects during the Fall Merit Joint Technical Staff meeting at the Michigan State University Union o..
Merit Network Update
A briefing from Merit's Michael Milliken on network status, including progress on the building of fiber networks related to the REACH-3MC broadband stimulus project.
Multiply Security Effectiveness with SIEM
Individual IT security products are getting better and better, but what good does it do if your information isn't working for you? This presentation, by Kevin Hayes from Wayne State University, explains how a Security In..
University of Michigan-100GE Backbone and WAN Upgrade
Jesse Lavigne from the University of Michigan speaks about the NSF-funded CC-NIE grant for improving network access to campus cyber-infrastructure resources. To make the NSF-funded portion of the grant successful, an upg..