2008 Report on European IXPs

This report has been compiled by the European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX) in an attempt to get a better picture of the past and current situation in regards to the number of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) operating in Europe, the amount of traffic being exchanged at these IXPs, the number of connected parties peering there, as well as other relevant statistics and trends that are now appearing in the European IXP market.

In an effort for us to better design future reports to suit community needs we would very much appreciate if you could let us know that you have downloaded this report and of course any comments or feedback would be more than welcome.

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De handreiking is opgesteld door het Nederlands Genootschap van Burgemeesters (NGB). In het boekwerkje zijn de ervaringen verwerkt van crises in de afgelopen jaren. Zo krijgen de burgemeesters in totaal 94 tips en aandachtspunten. De belangrijkste lessen zijn ingedeeld volgens een aantal fasen van de crisisbeheersingsketen: preparatie-, respons- en nazorgfase, de alarmeringsfase en de omgang met de media. 

comment : niet erg praktisch, maar goed misschien bestaan die praktische documenten en guidelines ergens anders

Emerging Cyber Threats Report for 2009

.draft-ietf-dhc-option-guidelines-03.txt     Guidelines for Creating New DHCP Options    14/10/2008
.draft-ietf-idnabis-defs-00.txt     Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Definitions and Document Framework    14/10/2008
..draft-ietf-isms-tmsm-14.txt     Transport Subsystem for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)    14/10/2008
draft-templin-autoconf-dhcp-17.txt     Virtual Enterprise Traversal (VET)    14/10/2008
.draft-krishnan-ipv6-exthdr-06.txt     An uniform format for IPv6 extension headers    14/10/2008
.draft-ietf-rohc-hcoipsec-09.txt     Integration of Robust Header Compression (ROHC) over IPsec Security Associations    14/10/2008
.draft-ietf-rohc-ikev2-extensions-hcoipsec-07.txt     IKEv2 Extensions to Support Robust Header Compression over IPsec (ROHCoIPsec)    14/10/2008
.draft-ietf-ecrit-location-hiding-req-01.txt     Location Hiding: Problem Statement and Requirements    12/10/2008
.draft-ietf-ecrit-specifying-holes-01.txt     Specifying Holes in LoST Service Boundaries    12/10/2008
.draft-ietf-isms-radius-usage-04.txt     Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) Usage for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Transport Models    12/10/2008
.draft-nir-ike-qcd-03.txt     A Quick Crash Detection Method for IKE    12/10/2008
.draft-arkko-eap-aka-kdf-06.txt     Improved Extensible Authentication Protocol Method for 3rd Generation Authentication and Key Agreement (EAP-AKA')    12/10/2008
.draft-ietf-krb-wg-anon-10.txt     Anonymity Support for Kerberos    10/10/2008
.draft-ietf-mext-firewall-admin-00.txt     Guidelines for firewall administrators regarding MIPv6 traffic    10/10/2008
.draft-ietf-mext-firewall-vendor-00.txt     Guidelines for firewall vendors regarding MIPv6 traffic    10/10/2008
.draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl-07.txt     DNS Blacklists and Whitelists    10/10/2008
.draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-imap-00.txt     IMAP Annotation for Indicating Message Authentication Status    10/10/2008
.draft-brusilovsky-pak-07.txt     Password-Authenticated Diffie-Hellman Exchange (PAK)    09/10/2008
.draft-ietf-rserpool-mib-07.txt     Reliable Server Pooling: Management Information Base using SMIv2    09/10/2008
.draft-freed-sieve-ihave-03.txt     Sieve Email Filtering: Ihave Extension    09/10/2008
.draft-ietf-smime-ibearch-09.txt     Identity-based Encryption Architecture and Supporting Data Structures    09/10/2008
draft-ietf-ancp-security-threats-06.txt     Security Threats and Security Requirements for the Access Node Control Protocol (ANCP)    07/10/2008
draft-ietf-idnabis-rationale-03.txt     Internationalized Domain Names for Applications (IDNA): Definitions,Background and Rationale    07/10/2008
draft-ietf-isms-secshell-12.txt     Secure Shell Transport Model for SNMP    07/10/2008
draft-ietf-isms-transport-security-model-09.txt     Transport Security Model for SNMP    07/10/2008
draft-hajjeh-tls-identity-protection-07.txt     Credential Protection Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)    06/10/2008
draft-liao-smimeheaderprotect-03.txt     Header Protection for S/MIME    06/10/2008
draft-ietf-pkix-ta-format-00.txt     Trust Anchor Format    06/10/2008
draft-ietf-pkix-tamp-00.txt     Trust Anchor Management Protocol (TAMP)    06/10/2008
draft-ietf-sip-domain-certs-02.txt     Domain Certificates in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)    06/10/2008
draft-ietf-smime-3850bis-08.txt     Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Version 3.2 Certificate Handling    06/10/2008
draft-iab-ip-config-08.txt     Principles of Internet Host Configuration    04/10/2008
draft-ietf-dna-simple-03.txt     Simple procedures for Detecting Network Attachment in IPv6    03/10/2008
draft-turner-deviceowner-attribute-00.txt     Device Owner Attribute    03/10/2008
draft-hoeper-proxythreat-00.txt     Threat Model for Networks Employing AAA Proxies    03/10/2008
draft-ietf-sip-xcapevent-04.txt     An Extensible Markup Language (XML) Configuration Access Protocol (XCAP) Diff Event Package    03/10/2008
draft-ietf-mext-rfc3775bis-02.txt     Mobility Support in IPv6    01/10/2008
draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-02.txt     A Uniform Resource Name Namespace For The GSM Association (GSMA) and the International Mobile station Equipment Identity(IMEI)    01/10/2008
draft-marinov-syslog-snmp-02.txt     Mapping Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Notifications to SYSLOG Messages    01/10/2008
draft-sharhalakis-httptz-04.txt     Timezone Information in HTTP    01/10/2008
draft-sakane-dhc-dhcpv6-kdc-option-02.txt     Kerberos Option for DHCPv6    01/10/2008
draft-keromytis-keynote-x509-01.txt     X.509 Key and Signature Encoding for the KeyNote Trust Management System    01/10/2008
draft-endo-v6ops-dnsproxy-01.txt     Translator Friendly DNS Proxy    01/10/2008
draft-keromytis-tls-authz-keynote-01.txt     Transport Layer Security (TLS) Authorization Using KeyNote    01/10/2008
draft-elwell-sip-identity-handling-ua-00.txt     Identity Handling at a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) User Agent    01/10/2008
draft-weaver-dnsext-fr-comprehensive-00.txt     Comprehensive DNS Resolver Defenses Against Cache Poisoning    30/09/2008
draft-weaver-dnsext-comprehensive-resolver-00.txt     Comprehensive DNS Resolver Defenses Against Cache Poisoning    30/09/2008
draft-ietf-nsis-nslp-natfw-19.txt     NAT/Firewall NSIS Signaling Layer Protocol (NSLP)    30/09/2008
draft-ietf-pcn-architecture-07.txt     Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) Architecture    30/09/2008

Internet Drafts - Title List sorted by date

Session 1: The Challenges of the Internet of the Future and the Internet of Things

Moderator and Speaker :

• João Schwarz da Silva, Director - Network and Communication Technologies, DG-INFSO, European Commission Presentation Presentation

Speakers:

Marc Fossier, Chief Technology Officer, France Telecom Presentation

Dr. Gerd Wolfram, Managing Director MGI Metro Group Information Technology GmbH Presentation

Chris Adcock, President, EPCglobal Inc Presentation

George Rittenhouse, Vice President, Bell Labs Research, Alcatel Lucent Presentation

Serge Ferré, Corporate Vice President, Nokia Global Presentation

Elgar Fleisch, Director Auto-ID Lab St. Gallen, ETH Zurich / University of St. Gallen, Switzerland Presentation

Session 2A: Which right to privacy in the light of the Internet of Things?

Speakers:

• Emilie Barrau , Bureau Européen des Unions de consommateurs Presentation
• Andrea Huber, Managing Director of the Informationsforum RFID, Germany Presentation
• Viola Schmid, LL.M. (Harvard), Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Presentation
• Gwendal Le Grand, Chief of the expertise (Direction of Judicial Affairs), National Commission for Data Processing and Freedom (CNIL) France Presentation
• Thaima Samman, Associate General Counsel Director in charge of driving Government Affairs and CSR activities in the EU region, Microsoft International Presentation Presentation

Session 2B: The impact of the Internet of Things on the main industrial sectors (B2B applications & services)

Speakers:

• Arnaud Mulliez, President Auchan France, President Picom, France Presentation
• Thierry Kunicki, governemental Programs Executive, IBM France North Africa Presentation
• Pierre Georget, President GS1 France Presentation
• Akhilesh Mathur, Programme Manager, Standards and Certification Universal Postal Union, Switzerland Presentation
• Patrick Gattellier, Research Director Thalès, France Presentation
• Dong Liu, CEO and President Beijing Internet Institute, China Presentation

Session 3A: Economic challenges & technological perspectives

Moderator and Speaker:

• Lara Srivastava, Senior Research Fellow, Aalborg University, Denmark Presentation

Speakers:

• Heinz-Paul Bonn, Vice President, BITKOM, Germany Presentation
• Sam Paltridge, Directorate of Science Technology and Industry for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Presentation

Session 3B: Applications and services of the mobile Internet (B2C applications & services)

• Rafi Haladjian, fondateur de la société Violet Presentation
• András Vilmos, Project Manager of the EU Project StoLPaN Presentation
• Ken Sakamura, Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan Presentation
• Etienne Graindor, Project Manager du Projet Smaart Presentation
• Francesco Lilli, Project Manager, Fiat Research Center Presentation
• Christian Chabannon, Institut Paoli-Calmettes, Marseille, France Presentation
• Philipp Hoschka, Deputy Director, W3C Europe Presentation

 The Challenges of International Co-operation -

Keynote Speakers: (TBC)

Andrew Robinson, Chairman of the French Business Council, UK Presentation

Session 4A: The strategy for interoperability and the standardization of the Internet of Things

Moderator and Speaker:

Jørgen Friis, Deputy Director ETSI Presentation

Speakers:

• Joseph H. Alhadeff , Vice President for Global Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer, Oracle Corporation Presentation
• EU Project GRIFS, presented by Henri Barthel, Director Global Partnerships & Projects, GS1 and EU Project CASAGRAS, presented by Anthony Furness, Technical Coordinator, AIDC UK Ltd Presentation
• Humberto Moran, Founder and Director, Friendly Technologies Ltd Presentation
• Laurent Sciboz, Head of the Business Information Systems Institute, RFID Center, Switzerland Presentation
• Leslie Daigle, Chief Technology Officer, ISOC World Presentation

Session 4B: Architectures and governance of the Internet of Things

• Patrik Falström, Senior Consulting Engineer, CISCO Systems Presentation
•  Governance Forum Chair Presentation
• Milton Mueller, Professor and Director of the Telecommunications Network Management Program at the Syracuse University Presentation
• Mathieu Weill, General Manager AFNIC Presentation
• Wang Wenfeng, China Electronic Standardization Institute Presentation

Strategies, Technologies and Services Forum

• Opening: Daniel Nabet, Director "Machine to Machine", Orange Business Services Presentation

Session A1: RFID/NFC technological issues

Pierre Jean Benghozi, Ecole Polytechnique et Françoise Massit-Follea, MSH Presentation Conference report of 61 pages

Olivier Burah, Tagsys Presentation

Ed Mc Donnell, HP Presentation

Emmanuel Faussurier, ANFR, France Presentation

Session A2: Architectural issues of the Internet of Things

Walid Dabbous, Research Director, INRIA, France Presentation

Prof. Alois Ferscha, Institut für Pervasive Computing Presentation

Mr Daniel NABET, Director Machine To Machine, Orange Business Services Présentation

Because in Belgium such things seem to take some time before getting started, we look wherever can find it.

SOA is not a disease (even if some security analysts will find it disrupts their security infrastructure the way a disease does) but stands for Service Oriented Architecture in which business services like databases would interact with each other immediately and give the customer an integrated response without the necessity of going to several databases and to integrate the responses himself. THis all looks very nice on paper but how can you promise the same user that all those databases that are communicating in real time with each other are all so secure that no hacker/crimecracker is hopping from one server to another. (go with the flow).

There is a working group in the UK that tries to get together some guidelines and standards, norms to effectively secure this. The industry has made this job quite difficult by making different solutions with different standards and different approaches. So an independent research seems the only way forward.

The working document is here

The wiki about SOA security is here

and yess they are more focused on UK law and US standards but if you are part of an international group, these will be the laws and standards you will have to follow anyway (as there is nothing legal or standard around here).

Two articles that got our attention

ps are all your system patched ?

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and more publications here

http://www.businessofgovernment.org/transition2008/

In the UK there is a whole campaign underway to promote Information assurance.

As part of assisting organisations' boards to progress towards the broad outcomes of the National IA Strategy, and particularly the mandatory and other measures set out in the Data Handling Review, this IAMM has been created. It is supported by the Information Assurance Assessment Framework (IAAF), which is designed to assist an independent review of progress against the IAMM within an organisation. In its turn, this review will assist organisational boards to report ongoing improvements in their Information Assurance and Information Risk Management postures in their annual reports to Cabinet Office

Document

DOWNLOAD ISSUE 18 HERE (October 2008)

Today we are proud to announce that chapters one through six are now available online in PDF format; they will soon be integrated into the site as well.

Check out the first six chapters of Access Denied:

• Chapter 1: Measuring Global Internet Filtering
  Robert Faris and Nart Villeneuve
• Chapter 2: Internet Filtering: The Politics and Mechanisms of Control
  Jonathan Zittrain and John Palfrey
• Chapter 3: Tools and Technology of Internet Filtering
  Steven J. Murdoch and Ross Anderson
• Chapter 4: Filtering and the International System: A Question of Commitment
  Mary Rundle and Malcolm Birdling
• Chapter 5: Reluctant Gatekeepers: Corporate Ethics on a Filtered Internet
  Jonathan Zittrain and John Palfrey
• Chapter 6: Good for Liberty, Bad for Security? Global Civil Society and the Securitization of the Internet
  Ronald Deibert and Rafal Rohozinski

2008 Best Practices in the Use of Information Technology in State Government

Released in conjunction with NASCIO's 2008 Best Practices in the Use of Information Technology in State Government Awards, this booklet contains summaries of innovative state government programs in the following areas: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery ; Cross-Boundary Collaboration and Partnerships; Data, Information and Knowledge Management; Digital Government – G to B; Digital Government – G to C; Digital Government – G to G; Enterprise IT Management Initiatives; Information Communications Technology Innovations; Information Security and Privacy; and IT Project and Portfolio Management.

http://www.nascio.org/publications/documents/NASCIO-2008A...
 

Conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly's website hacked

Palin's e-mail problems spread
Sarah Palin: not the Gawker Exclusive
Sarah Palin's E-mail Hacked
Update: Hackers claim to break into Palin's Yahoo Mail account
VP contender Sarah Palin hacked

Secret Counterfeiting Treaty Public Must be Made Public, Global Organizations
Say

Has Intel broken deliberately patents ? The document presents Intel's CSI specification, written at the "Intel Restricted Secret" level and containing 671 pages. According to the source the document reveals that Intel has violated a number of patents from other chip makers such as AMD. The original document contained numerous diagrams and tables which have been deliberately lost in the conversion to text, in-order to protect any genuine Intel discoveries while still providing enough information for those who have had their patents infringed by Intel to detect the infringement.

Also in the UK political bloggers have been forced to retract information by legal pressure or should we say extorsion ?

The problems of using the open source character of the Internet to do military and intelligence analysis in China

Viviane Reding, Commissioner for Information Society and Media, European
Commission announced the creation of a high-level advisory board named RISEPTIS
(Research and Innovation for SEcurity, Privacy and Trustworthiness in the
Information Society). The main mission of RISEPTIS will be to provide visionary
guidance on policy and research challenges in the field of security and
trust in the Information Society. RISEPTIS is supported by the FP7 Coordination
Action Think-Trust.


Brochure on ICT Security Research in FP7

New brochure is available about ICT Security Research in FP7 containing research activities in secure and trustworthy network infrastructures; in critical information infrastructure protection; in enabling technologies for security and trustworthiness of ICT; in trustworthy and secure serviceinfrastructures; in trust, privacy and identity in the digital economy; as well as the policy links and other useful information.

Brochure in low resolution .PDF 1,5 MB

Brochure in high resolution .PDF 8,4 MB