NANOG Security Curriculum


Last updated: 02/17/06

NANOG actively works to produce sessions and seminars to help foster security on the Internet. All sessions are taped and converted to streaming media for all to use for their personal education. Slides are available for each session as well. Over time, this effort has generated a valuable online tutorial for engineers and others seeking to learn more about running a more secure network.

ISP Security Tutorials/Presentations

ISP Security 101 Primer. Level: Introductory/Intermediate
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/greene.html

Challenges in Network Security Protocols. Level: Introductory/Intermediate
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0505/perlman.security.html

ISP Security 101 Primer. Level: Introductory/Intermediate
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/greene.html

XSP Security Vulnerabilities Panel
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0505/hannigan.html

Panel: BGP Security Requirements--An Overview of Current Work in the IETF
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0501/white.html

Team Cymru Bogon Route Servers
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0501/deitrich.html

A Day in the Security Life of a Service Provider--Qwest
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0501/donsmith.html

Using IPsec to Encrypt Your Wireless Traffic at NANOG. Level: Introductory, Hands-on
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0405/wessels.html

Customer-Triggered Real-Time Blackholes. Level: Introductory
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0402/morrow.html

Implementing a Secure Network Infrastructure (Parts I-III)
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/kaeo.html

ISP Security - Real World Techniques I - Remote Triggered Black Hole Filtering and Backscatter Traceback
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/greene.html

ISP Security - Real World Techniques II - Secure the CPE Edge
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/ispsecure.html

ISP Security: Deploying and Using Sinkholes
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/sink.html

Tutorial: Deploying IP Anycast
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/miller.html

ISP Security Presentations (General Session)

Implications of Securing Backbone Router Infrastructure
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0405/mcdowell.html

IPv6 IPv4 Threat Comparison
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0405/miller.html

Preparing RIR Allocation Data for Network Security Analysis Tasks
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0405/trammell.html

End-to-end, Spam, and DoS: Threats to the Model That Made the Internet Great
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0402/karn.html

How to Kill Worms and Viruses with Policy Pontifications
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0402/policy.html

Listen and Whisper: Security Mechanisms for BGP
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0402/subramanian.html

Analysis of the DDoS Attack Against SCO
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0402/moore.html

Watching Your Router Configurations and Detecting Those Exciting Little Changes
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/rancid.html

Building a Web of Trust
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/abley.html

The Relationship Between Network Security and Spam
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/spam.html

Simple Router Security, What Every ISP Router Engineer Should Know and Practice
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/routersec.html

Flawed Routers Flood University of Wisconsin Internet Time Server
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/plonka.html

Trends in Denial of Service Attack Technology
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/cert.html

Recent Internet Worms: Who Are the Victims, and How Good Are We at Getting the Word Out?
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/moore.html

DoS Attacks in the Real World
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/irc.html

Diversion and Sieving Techniques to Defeat DDoS
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/afek.html

DNS Damage - Measurements at a Root Server
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0202/evi.html

Protecting the BGP Routes to Top Level DNS Servers
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0206/bush.html

BGP Security Update
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0206/barry.html

Industry/Government Infrastructure Vulnerability Assessment: Background and Recommendations
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0206/avi.html

A National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/sachs.html

How to 0wn the Internet in Your Spare Time
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/vern.html

ISP Security BOF I
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/securebof.html

The Spread of the Sapphire/Slammer Worm
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/weaver.html

ISP Security BOF II
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/securebof.html

The BGP TTL Security Hack
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/hack.html

Security Considerations for Network Architecture
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/avi.html

Lack of Priority Queuing on Route Processors Considered Harmful
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0302/gill.html

Interception Technology: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly!
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/schiller.html

The NIAC Vulnerability Disclosure Framework and What It Might Mean to the ISP Community
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/duncan.html

Inter-Provider Coordination for Real-Time Tracebacks
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/moriarity.html

ISP Security BOF III
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/securitybof.html

S-BGP/soBGP Panel: What Do We Really Need and How Do We Architect a Compromise to Get It?
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/sbgp.html

BGP Vulnerability Testing: Separating Fact from FUD
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/franz.html

BGP Attack Trees - Real World Examples
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/hares.html

NRIC Best Practices for ISP Security
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0306/callon.html