This half day event took place on 29 March 2010 in Oxford. We took a closer look at the threats and solutions to a safe and stable domain name system.

A keynote presentation by Cricket Liu examined the threats to DNS, cache poisoning, DDoS attacks and looked at how DNS administrators can secure their networks.

This was followed by presentations from Nominet on how we are securing the .uk zone and continuing to provide a safe and stable environment for the UK Internet community.

If you would like any information on the event please email events@nominet.org.uk

Agenda

09:00     Registration

09:30     Nominet introduction
            Simon McCalla, Director of IT, Nominet

09.45     Closer Look at Threats to the Domain Name System and how DNSSEC can help mitigate
            Cricket Liu, Vice President, Architecture, Infoblox
            Co-author of all of O'Reilly & Associates Nutshell Handbooks on DNS

10.45    Q&A

11:00    Tea/Coffee break

11:15    DNSSEC, History and overview
            Roy Arends, Senior Researcher, Advance Projects Team, Nominet

              OpenDNSSEC - the architecture and our contribution to it
            Sion Lloyd, Researcher, Advance Projects Team, Nominet

              Signing .uk
            Stephen Morris, Advance Projects Team Manager, Nominet
       
12:15    Close of meeting
            Simon McCalla, Director of IT, Nominet

12:30    Lunch

Venue

Oxford Thames Four Pillars, Henley Road, Sandford on Thames, Oxford, OX4 4GX

Cricket Liu

Cricket Liu is an authority on the Domain Name System and the co-author of all of O'Reilly & Associates Nutshell Handbooks on DNS, including the classic DNS and BIND. As Executive Vice President, Cricket guides the development of Infoblox’s product and business strategy, and serves as a liaison between Infoblox and the technical community. Cricket worked for Hewlett-Packard for nearly ten years, where he ran hp.com, one of the largest corporate domains in the world, and helped found HP’s Internet consulting business. Cricket later co-founded his own Internet consulting and training company, Acme Byte & Wire. After Network Solutions acquired Acme Byte & Wire, Cricket became Director of DNS Product Management.