SSH access is an essential and standard building block of all HPC environments. In the last few years, more and more groups have focused on security, operability, and user experience issues of this access, for example: a user is responsible to create and manage his SSH keys, rekeying is hard to manage, and in the end, keys are used permanently, TOFU (trust on the first use) is always approved;...
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are a major threat to the modern Internet, rendering critical services inaccessible to legitimate clients. Thus, smart mechanisms for effectively mitigating DDoS attacks are largely required by network administrators. In this presentation, we will demonstrate our work on integrating the RARE platform with Firewall on Demand (FoD) for efficient DDoS...
