The interest in using big data solutions based on Hadoop, Kafka and Spark ecosystem is constantly growing in the HEP community, in particular, for use cases related to data analytics and data warehousing. Many distributed system services use Zookeeper as their means for coordination and metadata storage. However, on many occasions, this service is either deployed insecurely or easily becomes a...
This presentation provides an update on the global security landscape since the last HEPiX meeting. It describes the main vectors of risks and compromises in the academic community including lessons learned, presents interesting recent attacks while providing recommendations on how to best protect ourselves.
The threat faced by the research and education sector from determined and well-resourced cyber attackers has been growing in recent years and is now acute. A vital means of better protecting ourselves is to share threat intelligence - key Indicators of Compromise of an ongoing incidents including network observables and file hashes - with trusted partners. We must also deploy the technical...
During the last 6 months the HEPiX IPv6 working group has continued to encourage the deployment of dual-stack IPv4/IPv6 services. We also recommend dual-stack clients (worker nodes etc). Many data transfers are happening today over IPv6 but it is still true that many are not! This talk will present our recent activities including our investigations for the reasons behind ongoing use of IPv4 as...
The high-energy physics community, along with the WLCG sites and Research and Education (R&E) networks are collaborating on network technology development, prototyping and implementation via the Research Networking Technical working group (RNTWG). As the scale and complexity of the current HEP network grows rapidly, new technologies and platforms are being introduced that greatly extend the...
