Podcasts about farsight security

Our guest this week is a true internet pioneer. Paul Vixie describes himself as a “long time defender of the internet.” He's  an author or co-author of several RFC documents and open source software systems including BIND and Cron, a serial entrepreneur now CEO and co-founder of his fifth startup company, Farsight Security, and an inductee into the Internet Hall of Fame.  He joins us with insights on how we are suffering the ramifications of early internet design choices, what that means for global networking going forward, and, specifically, why he believes it's best not to rely on outsourcing your DNS.

Our guest this week is a true internet pioneer. Paul Vixie describes himself as a “long time defender of the internet.” He’s  an author or co-author of several RFC documents and open source software systems including BIND and Cron, a serial entrepreneur now CEO and co-founder of his fifth startup company, Farsight Security, and an inductee into the Internet Hall of Fame.  He joins us with insights on how we are suffering the ramifications of early internet design choices, what that means for global networking going forward, and, specifically, why he believes it’s best not to rely on outsourcing your DNS.

Andrew Lewman is the Co-Founder and former CEO of The Tor Project, the non-profit behind the Tor browser, the most well-known and widely-used dark web internet browser. Andrew is a globally renowned internet security and dark web expert, and works with the U.S. government and its allies, as well as Interpol’s Crimes Against Children Initiative. Andrew has helped co-found several tech and security companies, including TechTarget, Farsight Security, and DarkOwl. Gary Alford is a Supervisory Special Agent at the Internal Revenue Service.  He is most well-known as the sleuth that helped crack the infamous Silk Road online drug trafficking case, specifically by helping unmask Dread Pirate Roberts, the site’s creator.  SSBT is hosted by Mauhan M Zonoozy, founder of Bubbl (acquired by Cricket Media), NYC-based angel investor, and Venture Architect Director at BCG Digital Ventures.  Guests: Andrew Lewman, Co-Founder of the Tor Project and Dark Owl, and Gary Alford, Special Agent at the Internal Revenue Service

Dr. Paul Vixie, CEO of Farsight Security and Internet Hall of Famer, joins Ashwin at RSA’s Broadcast Alley to talk about ethical data aggregation. He explains the cybercrime fighting mission behind SIE Europe, the nonprofit he co-founded with Christoph Fishcher and Peter Kruse, saying, “So far, everyone’s giving us high marks for both transparency and […]

The federal government has avoided major cybersecurity breaches and data theft in the last couple of years. But it's not immune to attacks. Recent domain-name-system, or D-N-S, attacks prove it. Ben April, the chief technology officer of Farsight Security, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin  for analysis of the current situation.  

Alexa Raad, COO of Farsight Security. Alexa escaped the Iranian Revolution as a teenager – she, her mother and sister caught the last cargo plane out of the country. She went from a prosperous life in Iran to having almost nothing in an instant. But the experience taught her an important lesson – “The only thing in life you have control over is yourself. Only you can control your actions.” Her parents expected she would become a doctor, but Alexa instead majored in marketing. And with the dawn of the internet, she discovered a passion for technology. She has held senior leadership positions with AT&T, Bell Atlantic and Cybercash and now serves as the COO of Farsight Security. Alexa shares her journey to the C-Suite, the key threats plaguing the security operations center (SOC) and why internet governance cannot be our only shield against bad actors.

Paul Vixie, CEO of Farsight Security, explains how global Internationalized Domain Names, or global IDNs, sparked the emergence of confusingly similar website addresses with nefarious goals -- and how to combat them.

Dr. Paul Vixie helped design the domain name system, is a member of the Internet Hall of Fame, and founded Farsight Security, where he's chairman and CEO. He tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin what it's like to be a pioneer in internet technology who has spent at least the past 20 years thinking about cybersecurity.

Slides Here: https://defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Vixie/DEFCON-22-Paul-Vixie-2014-07-15-botnets.pdf White paper available for download here: https://defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Vixie/DEFCON-22-Paul-Vixie-WP.pdf Domain Name Problems and Solutions Dr. Paul Vixie CEO, FARSIGHT SECURITY Spammers can't use dotted quads or any other literal IP address, since SpamAssassin won't let it through, since it looks too much like spam. So, spammers need cheap and plentiful — dare we say 'too cheap to meter'? — domain names. The DNS industry is only too happy to provide these domain names, cheaply and at massive scale. The end result is that 90% of all domain names are crap, with more on the way. DNS registrars and registries sometimes cooperate with law enforcement and commercial takedown efforts since it results in domains that die sooner thus creating demand for more domains sooner. Spammers and other abusers of the Internet commons sometimes try to keep their domains alive a little longer by changing name server addresses, or changing name server names, many times per day. All of this action and counteraction leaves tracks, and around those tracks, security minded network and server operators can build interesting defenses including DNS RPZ, a firewall that works on DNS names, DNS responses, and DNS metadata; and NOD, a feed of Newly Observed Domains that can be used for brand enforcement, as well as an RPZ that can direct a DNS firewall to treat infant domain names unfairly. Dr. Paul Vixie, long time maintainer of BIND and now CEO of Farsight Security, will explain and demonstrate." Dr. Paul Vixie is the CEO of Farsight Security. He previously served as President, Chairman and Founder of Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), as President of MAPS, PAIX and MIBH, as CTO of Abovenet/MFN, and on the board of several for-profit and non-profit companies. He served on the ARIN Board of Trustees from 2005 to 2013, and as Chairman in 2008 and 2009. Vixie is a founding member of ICANN Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC) and ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC). Vixie has been contributing to Internet protocols and UNIX systems as a protocol designer and software architect since 1980. He is considered the primary author and technical architect of BIND 8, and he hired many of the people who wrote BIND 9 and the people now working on BIND 10. He has authored or co-authored a dozen or so RFCs, mostly on DNS and related topics, and of Sendmail: Theory and Practice (Digital Press, 1994). He earned his Ph.D. from Keio University for work related to the Internet Domain Name System (DNS and DNSSEC).