It’s almost exactly seven years since Enno published the very first blog post on
Insinuator.net. Meanwhile, quite a few things changed. It’s not only the ERNW
Universe which grew significantly, but also Insinuator’s place within this
universe was slightly adjusted. What started as an almost independent
IT-Security blog became more and more the major publication medium of ERNW.
Therefore, we thought it would be a good time to reflect these changes. Today we
release the 2.0 version of Insinuator.net. 2.0 introduces a new look & feel as
well as major redesign from a technical point of view while also reflecting
Insinuator’s place between the four major players in the ERNW universe:
I recently had the pleasure to join the
64th NANOG (North American Network
Operators’ Group) meeting in San Francisco, which can be understood as one of
the largest Internet engineering conferences at all. It takes place three times
a year at different locations in North America.
What I personally like about NANOG is its strong collaborative and cooperative
character. It is not about single persons and also not too much about
spectacular projects but more about discussing technologies, ideas, challenges
and numbers. Every talk has a comparatively large time slot reserved for
discussion, which is often more than fully used. Discussion is typically
actively focused and is more time-consuming (and even more relevant) than the
talk itself. Which often is intended by the community. The climate of discussion
is almost always impressively polite and constructive, even for controversially
discussed topics.
On last year’s TROOPERS11,
Matthias (mluft) and I gave a
talk
on Multifunction Devices. Hardly surprising: It was related to the state of
secure operation of MFDs. It was heavily motivated by experiences we collected
out in the wild. We faced a frightening low level of awareness concerning the
role of MFDs for the overall security picture – in particular regarding the
processing of sensitive data…
However, instead of only showing and proving well-known weaknesses and
vulnerabilities, we decided to adapt ERNW’s
*Seven Sisters *model
in order to match the needs of secure MFD operation and to develop some kind of
guideline. As Matthias already lost some
words on this,
I’m not gonna waste your valuable time by repeating, what has already been said.
However I described our approach and our thoughts on that topic in a recently
published ERNW Newsletter. If
for what ever reason you didn’t see our talk or even didn’t attend
TROOPERS11 at all, have a look on
Newsletter 37 and give us feedback on what you think about the whole topic…