[Chapter-delegates] Expert Panel Event - Securing the DNS: Towards a more secure Internet

Gerard Ross ross at isoc.org
Wed Jul 8 11:06:04 PDT 2009


Dear colleagues

Following the success of the Internet Society's IPv6 panel alongside  
IETF 74, we are now pleased to announce a new panel event to be held  
during the IETF 75 week in Stockholm, Sweden:

   Securing the DNS: Towards a more secure Internet
     11:45am - 12:45pm (UTC+2), Tuesday 28 July
     Clarion Sign Hotel, Stockholm, Sweden (opposite the IETF 75 venue)
     Light lunch provided; registration is free

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the critical operational  
elements of the Internet, creating a "human environment" that allows  
names to be mapped to host addresses across the Internet. But the DNS  
was established with no inherent security mechanisms, making it  
vulnerable to certain malicious activities, such as DNS spoofing,  
where attackers make false assertions about DNS data in order to  
misdirect traffic to unwanted sites.

Efforts are underway on several fronts, developing better Internet  
security technologies and practices through open standards development  
and the collaborative work of developers, operators, and industry. One  
key effort is DNSSEC (short for DNS Security Extensions) - a set of  
open standards developed to authenticate DNS data using public key  
infrastructure to digitally sign DNS records, providing a high level  
of security to core transactions. It does not solve all online  
security issues, but it is an important step towards a more secure  
online experience.

Leaders from across the Internet community are actively engaged in  
work to drive the broad deployment of DNSSEC and other standards for  
continuous improvements in Internet security.

In this session - designed to make these issues accessible to a  
broader audience - the Internet Society's Leslie Daigle will lead a  
distinguished panel of some of the world's leading developers,  
administrators, and operators of Internet infrastructure. What are  
their experiences? What problems have they overcome? And what do they  
see as the next steps towards a more robustly secure Internet?

All are welcome to participate, but seats are limited, so please  
register in advance. More information, including free online  
registration at:

   http://www.isoc.org/dns

For those unable to attend, an live audiocast will be available -  
check the website above closer to the date for details.



--
Gerard Ross
Senior Manager, Outreach and Coordinated Communication
Internet Society
Email: ross at isoc.org




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