by Patrick Jones on April 16, 2013
ICANN has a long tradition of working with the Internet community to support technical training, going back 10 years to the ICANN meeting in Carthage, Tunisia in October 2003. Over the years, these trainings have assisted with improving skills, creating awareness of DNS threats and mitigations, and enabled DNSSEC in a number of ccTLDs. Last [...]
by Joe Abley on October 29, 2012
ICANN is responsible for the management of the root zone’s DNSSEC Key Signing Key (KSK). This responsibility includes secure storage of cryptographic key material in redundant Key Management Facilities (KMFs) located within the USA, one in Culpeper, Virginia and one in El Segundo, California. Despite the damage and concern caused by Hurricane Sandy as it [...]
by Patrick Jones on November 12, 2010
As the community prepares to head into the 39th international ICANN public meeting in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, ICANN’s Security team provides this update on current activities. A little over a year ago, ICANN signed the Affirmation of Commitments to ensure the global technical coordination of the Internet’s system of unique identifiers. Preserving the security, [...]
by David Olive on August 30, 2010
Earlier this month, DomainNameWire.com published an article about ICANN’s policy development process. The author, Andrew Allemann, strives for balance but overall leaves the impression that ICANN has “policy overload,” handling too many policy efforts at once. Andrew also cites the technical and complex topics we ask the public to comment upon. Since I was quoted [...]
by Rod Beckstrom on August 6, 2010
حضر عدد من أعضاء ICANN مؤتمري Black Hat وDefcon الأسبوع الماضي بهدف طرح DNSSEC أمام مجتمع أمن الإنترنت العالمي. يعتبر Black Hat أحد المؤتمرات الرئيسية في العالم حول الأمن؛ والتي تجتذب نحو من 5,000 مشارك في الموقع والعديد عبر الإنترنت. أما Defcon فهو أحد المؤتمرات التي تدور حول القراصنة، كما قد حضره ممثلون من الحكومة [...]
by Rod Beckstrom on August 6, 2010
几名 ICANN 员工于上周出席了 Black Hat 与 Defcon 会议,并在会上向全球互联网安全社群推出了 DNSSEC。 Black Hat 是世界上最重要的安全会议之一,它吸引了大约 5000 名现场参与者以及更多的在线参与者。Defcon 是一个黑客参加的活动,同时也有政府与安全领域的人员参与,有近 10000 人登记参加了今年的会议。这些都是 ICANN 非常重视的群体。 Black Hat 主席 Jeff Moss 在开幕式上向数千名与会者发表讲话,并提出了一个具有挑战性的问题。在 Black Hat 的 13 年历史中,与会者们一直在对安全问题进行讨论与争议,但我们取得了哪些进展?我们获得了哪些有实际意义的成就?网络上恶意流量的增长远高于合法流量的增长。他认为直到现在,互联网安全社群一直都无法拿出实质性的成果的来证明我们的努力。但现在 DNSSEC 正在启动,而且就在几天前互联网的根域经过了加密签名。这是自首届 Black Hat 以来互联网安全第一次得到显著的提升,我们要感谢 ICANN 能够取得这一成绩。 这也为取得其它成功确立了基调,包括: Whit Diffie 在 Black Hat 执行会议中的主题演讲 80 名来自政府和企业的高层领导人在 Black Hat 正式开始的前一天出席了一个为期一天的单独项目。ICANN 负责“信息安全与密码”的新副总裁 Whit Diffie 是该项目的午餐会主题发言人。他给与会者留下了深刻的印象,许多人都知道他作为一流译解密码员的世界级声誉。 Black Hat [...]
by Rod Beckstrom on August 6, 2010
В рамках запуска технологии DNSSEC для глобального сообщества, занимающегося решением вопросов безопасности Интернета, несколько сотрудников ICANN присутствовало на конференциях Black Hat и Defcon, проведенных на прошлой неделе. Black Hat является одной из главных всемирных конференций по вопросам безопасности, на которой лично присутствует свыше 5 000 участников, и еще большое их число использует средства удаленного участия. Defcon [...]
by Rod Beckstrom on August 6, 2010
Varios miembros del personal de ICANN asistieron a las conferencias "Black Hat" y "Defcon" la semana pasada para lanzar la DNSSEC a la comunidad general de seguridad de Internet. "Black Hat" es una de las conferencias principales de seguridad; atrae a unos 5.000 participantes en persona y a muchos más en línea. "Defcon" es un [...]
by Rod Beckstrom on August 6, 2010
Plusieurs membres du personnel d’ICANN ont participé aux conférences Black Hat et Defcon la semaine dernière, pour le déploiement du DNSSEC à l’échelle de la communauté mondiale de sécurité Internet. Black Hat est l’une des principales conférences de sécurité au monde, et attire environ 5 000 participants sur place et de nombreux autres en ligne. Defcon [...]
by Rod Beckstrom on August 3, 2010
Several ICANN staff members attended the Black Hat and Defcon conferences last week to launch DNSSEC to the global Internet security community. Black Hat is one of the world’s premier security conferences; it attracts about 5,000 onsite participants and many more online. Defcon is a hacker event, also attended by government and security types, and [...]