(This article was written for the MIT 6.858 Computer Systems Security class to supplement lecture content, but is not intended to be a replacement for attending lectures. The 2020 lecture video can be found here.) What comes to mind when you hear the buzzword “containerization”? Perhaps you have heard of software packages such as Virtuozzo, […]
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This month I was at Black Hat and there was a new buzzword being tossed around by security vendors in the business hall: Zero Trust. I always like to see what exciting new concepts the security industry tries to productize and incorporate into their product demos to convince budget decision makers to buy them, so […]
About DNS The Domain Name System (DNS) was proposed by American computer scientist Paul Mockapetris in 1983, who was at UC Irvine at that time. DNS was created to solve the maintainability and scalability issues of a local hosts file. Today, DNS is one of the core protocols of the Internet, providing a mapping between […]