network security

Using ICSI's Open-Source Bro Platform to Protect the Blue Waters Supercomputer

Thursday, April 25, 2013

Blue WatersGuest post by Adam Slagell, NCSA and the Bro team

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois faces unique security challenges as it must both maintain an open academic environment accessible to researchers around the world and protect some of the most valuable IT assets in the nation, a point brought home by the recent inauguration of the Blue Waters petascale computing system.

ICSI in MIT Review

"Moore's Outlaws"
July 2010  |  David Talbot, MIT Technology Review

"What we’ve seen is that arms races often progress in an evolutionary fashion. But now and then, they jump,” says Paxson. "If there is some cyber attack that messes up a city for a week–or if a big company is brought to its knees–it will be a game changer."

The Bro Exchange

Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Bernhard Ahmann at Bro Exchange 2012
Bernhard Amann presenting at Bro Exchange 2012

Earlier this month, ICSI's Bro team held the first "Bro Exchange:" a meeting aimed at bringing together a large number of Bro users to exchange thoughts and experiences deploying the system. Bro is an open-source network security monitor developed by a team of researchers and engineers at ICSI and NCSA. About 50 Bro users from industry, research labs, and universities attended the event, which was hosted by the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.