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March 16, 2020

Esports and Education: A Partnership for Success Whitepaper

Esports, organized competitive video gaming, is changing how we engage in sports and education. Many high schools and higher ed institutions are developing esports programs as well as joining organizations like the Michigan High School Esports Federation (MIHSEF) and the…
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January 31, 2018

Build vs Buy: Managed Firewalls Whitepaper

From network servers or the cloud, to the tiniest thumb drive or solid-state disk - every school, library or organization that stores data needs cybersecurity - without exception. No one is immune to the risk of cyberattack, but firewalls help…
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October 31, 2016

A Sneak Peek into Modern Data Interchange Formats

With the rise of internet-connected devices and applications, data interchange has become inevitable. It is important for these communications to happen in a secure [2], yet efficient manner keeping in mind resource bottlenecks -- network, processor, and disk resources. [visibility…
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February 10, 2016

A Data Repository for Cybersecurity Research and Education

Finding adequate data for network and cybersecurity research, student education and staff training is a challenging task. Researchers and other data seekers usually do not have access to the data source in order to collect the data themselves or lack…
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June 15, 2010

Last IPv4 Addresses May Already Be Cluttered

Reprinted from PC World The few blocks of Internet addresses yet to be allocated under the old IPv4 protocol seem to be home to some "hotspots" of unwanted traffic that anyone who gets the addresses would have to pay for,…
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June 15, 2010

Researchers Probe Net’s Most Blighted Darknet

Reprinted from The Register Researchers probing a previously unused swath of internet addresses say they've stumbled onto the net's most blighted neighborhoods, with at least four times as much pollution as any they've ever seen. The huge chuck of more…
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