Attending O’Reilly’s Tools of Change Conference (TOCCON) This Week in New York

This week I will be in New York City at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing Conference, a.k.a. "TOC" or "TOCCON". As I wrote about recently on the Deploy360 blog, TOC is really the premiere gathering of the people behind…

U.S. Curling Championships Start Rocking Philadelphia This Weekend!

For those folks lucky enough to live in the Philadelphia area, or who can travel there, this weekend begins eight days of the US national curling championships! The best men’s and women’s teams will be in Philly vying for their chance to qualify in a slot for the 2012 World Championships and the 2014 U.S. Olympic Trials. Expect to see some outstanding curling happening this week! More on the story: Philly.com: U.S. curling championships come to Philadelphia area 2012 USA Curling Nationals Website A local Philadelphia country music station also seems to have helped produce a video with interviews and…

ENISA: Good Practices Guide For Deploying DNSSEC

In March 2010, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) issued their “Good Practices Guide For Deploying DNSSEC” with the abstract: Deploying DNSSEC requires a number of security details and procedures to be defined and followed with specific requirements as to timing. This guide addresses these issues from the point of view of information Read more…

DNSSEC Training: Internet Systems Consortium (ISC)

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), authors and maintains of the BIND DNS server, have been providing DNSSEC-related training for several years at both conferences and in training centers all over the world. Their latest schedule of courses can be found at: http://www.isc.org/support/training ISC offers focused classes on DNSSEC and also includes DNSSEC as a component Read more…

DNSSEC Training: NLnet Labs Course Materials (Slides)

In February 2012, Olaf Kolkman from NLnet Labs taught a 2-day DNSSEC “Train-The-Trainer” workshop and nicely made all his course materials available online at: http://www.dns-school.org/Slides/index.html Olaf made all his courseware available as PDF, PowerPoint and Keynote files under a Creative Commons license that allows the course materials to be copied, modified and even used for commercial Read more…

Friday Comic: XKCD on IPv6 and Nanobot Swarms…

Yes, this XKCD comic came out in February of last year, but I still find it amusing (click on the image to see a larger version): For those not following IPv6, the joke here is that the nanobot swarm (ex. grey goo) wound up having to stop their proliferation – and destruction of earth – because Read more…

DNSSEC And The Challenge Of Modern Websites

Given that modern websites often pull content from a variety of different sites to build a single page, what impact does that have on DNSSEC and providing the security that it does? That was one of the questions raised in a recent post by the DNSSEC Deployment Initiative titled “Are You Secure?” This key point Read more…

ION Canada

14/11/2011
00:00 -00:00

ION Canada
InterContinental Toronto Centre, Toronto, ON Canada

ION Argentina 2011

05/10/2011
14:00 -18:00

ION Argentina 2011
Sheraton Libertador, Buenos Aires

USENIX LISA ’11

07/12/2011 – 09/12/2011
00:00 -00:00

USENIX LISA '11
Sheraton Boston Hotel, Boston MA