By Matthew Voshell, CACI
I’m often asked, “What’s this if map thing I keep hearing about?” or “What’s an ifmaps?”.
Understanding my first challenge, to get people to correctly pronounce the standard,
helps me envision the magnitude of a culture shift that IF-MAP is going to have on the
Cyber Security Industry
What if you were designing the Internet from scratch? What capabilities would you build into it? How would the protocols work --- would you have chosen TCP/IP? The GENI project looks at all that and more, and takes a "clean-slate" approach to designing a next-generation network from scratch. The project uses IF-MAP to help design how instrumentation and measurement can better work over a network, based on research being done by Deniz Gurkan, Assistant Professor of Engineering at the University of Houston.
Read MoreOne of the biggest security challenges facing enterprises is how to handle the security risks posed by mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets. The ESUKOM project has taken on that challenge. As part of the project, it has built an IF-MAP Android app, and we've got a look at it for you, including screenshots.
Read MoreIF-MAP took center stage at a recent major National Security Agency conference focused on network and enterprise security. It was a coming-out party of sorts for IF-MAP, which was being shown on everything from intrusion detection systems for monitoring network scans and password cracking, to Android smartphone clients.
Read MorePosted by Ingo Bente of Trust@FHH Research Group. The ESUKOM project aims to develop a real-time security solution for enterprise networks that works based upon the correlation of metadata. A key challenge that will be addressed is the increasing adoption of smartphones for business purposes.
Read MoreHere's a great look at IF-MAP in action. Mark Townsend of Enterasys Networks demonstrates how IF-MAP integrates physical security information and a badge reader at the door with network security systems and a network access control system.
Read MorePosted by Scott Howard of Tofino Security. An important aspect of industrial control systems (ICS) security is managing security across enterprise and industrial networks. For example, let’s consider remote access to industrial networks. A VPN would likely be used to authenticate and allow a particular person to do remote maintenance.
Read MoreAs part of the effort to further open automation, a number of universities around the world have been looking at MAP. The University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover (FHH) is one of leaders in this effort, having developed one of the first working MAP server implementations in 2009. Last October, FHH launched a new project to protect mobile devices using IF-MAP as well as a new version of their IF-MAP server and a new visualization tool. I caught up with Ingo Bente, a research associate in the University of Applied Science and Arts, to chat about the project.
Read MoreEvery company wants to reduce IT costs, but relying on SNMP to automate IT processes is yesterday’s news. Here are five reasons cited by IT managers in recent conversations with STAnalytics as to why they would not want to use SNMP for automation.
Read MoreFacebook’s meteoric ascent has had many causes, but certainly one key reason was Facebook’s use of “pub/sub”, or publish and subscribe technology. Unlike instant messaging (IM) where you generally communicate one-to-one (or point-to-point) and need to do a lot of work to make sure that you always know who’s up to what (and vice versa), Facebook allows one user to update many others simply by publishing new information. Subscribers to these updates get instant notification and don’t need to continuously check to see if there’s new information.
Read More