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Network Research Update
By Brian Warkoczeski
Merit's network research team is currently involved in a few on-going projects:
- Merit Network and other organizations are participating in PREDICT, the Protected Repository for the Defense of Infrastructure Against Cyber Threats. The PREDICT project is providing cyber defense researchers with live network data within the PREDICT umbrella, allowing them to securely access the data to evaluate cyber threats. The project is assisting the creation of new methods, technologies and products related to cyber defense.
- One of Merit's most successful network research projects has been the development of Merit RADb. The service continues to be an important resource for organizations worldwide. In addition to being the world's largest public routing registry, Merit RADb provides users with tools to register their network routing assets, track routing changes, and determine the health of network assets.
In late January, Merit RADb will launch three new features in its online portal. Host Reputation will alert Merit RADb users when hosts on their networks appear on a network reputation black list. The feature will help network operators detect and remove infected hosts. Another feature will allow users to examine their BGP route information, and the third new feature will monitor route assets and send email notifications to Merit RADb members at selected intervals.
For more about Merit RADb, please visit:
www.merit.edu/meritradb/
- Merit's network researchers are participating in an on-going project with faculty from the University of Michigan that considers the reputation of networks. They have been examining network data from around the world and then breaking down the data by regions, such as RIPE, ARIN, APNIC, and LATNIC.
Researchers have been examining reputation block lists that gather IP addresses and classify them by the type of malicious activity, such as SPAM, malware, phishing, brute-force attacks, and others. If networks are poorly run and patches are not applied regularly to connected machines, a network can develop a negative reputation.
Merit's Manish Karir and Kyle Creyts recently presented their findings at RIPE 63, NANOG53, and LACNIC2011. You can view their presentations at:
www.merit.edu/networkresearch/papers/
January 2012 - Merit Connections Newsletter
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