Asta Networks Co-Founder and UCSD Colleagues Honored With Best Paper Award at 2001 USENIX Security Conference.Business Editors/Technology Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 2001 "Inferring Internet Denial-of-Service Activity" Offers First World Study on DoS Attacks See denial of service attack. Asta Networks co-founder and Professor Stefan Savage and his University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. (UCSD UCSD University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, California) UCSD User Centered System Design UCSD Urbana-Champaign Sanitary District (Illinois) UCSD Ultra Cool Sexy Dudes ) colleagues David Moore David Moore is a common English name and may refer to:
The paper, entitled "Inferring Internet Denial-of-Service Activity," offers findings from the first world study on DoS attacks. The focus on the research behind the paper was to assess the number, duration, and focus of DoS attacks, and to characterize their behavior. Over the course of a three-week period, researchers detected 12,805 attacks against more than 5,000 distinct targets. These targets ranged from well-known companies, such as Amazon and AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. , to small foreign ISPs and dial-up connections. Asta Networks provided data that qualitatively confirms the research based on installations of its recently released Vantage System solution for protecting networks from DoS attacks. "We're extremely pleased to have won this award," said Savage. "USENIX is one of the premier organizations dedicated to the research, identification and resolution of security threats. Our paper is the first public attempt at dissecting dis·sect tr.v. dis·sect·ed, dis·sect·ing, dis·sects 1. To cut apart or separate (tissue), especially for anatomical study. 2. and understanding DoS attacks. We're pleased it was well received by USENIX and look forward to furthering our research." The USENIX Security Symposium brings together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in the latest advances in security of computer systems. Twenty-four out of the 83 papers submitted were accepted and presented at this year's conference. The winning UCSD paper was presented by David Moore on the first main day of the conference. Asta Networks Vantage System helps businesses detect, locate, and counter DoS attacks on any network before they can cause costly downtime or degraded service. Vantage System, just released in June, provides service providers and enterprises with instant insight into their network traffic, reducing time Network Operations Centers See NOC. Network Operations Center - (NOC) A location from which the operation of a network or internet is monitored. Additionally, this center usually serves as a clearinghouse for connectivity problems and efforts to resolve those problems. spend investigating incidents, and optimizing service for customers. About Asta Networks Asta Networks is a network reliability company that was founded in April 2000 by worldwide leaders in the fields of distributed networking This article is and to meet Wikipedia's , may require a , wikifying and categorization. Please discuss this issue on the talk page or [ replace this tag] with a . This article has been tagged since May 2007. , Internet reliability and security. The company develops software and services to optimize the management and flow of network traffic so businesses can confidently depend on the Internet. For more information, please contact Asta Networks at 866/661-ASTA (2782) or visit http://www.astanetworks.com. Asta Networks and Vantage System are registered trademarks of Asta Networks. |
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