Diverse Technologies

The presentation will be accompanied by photographs and short video clips of the SABRENet construction.

Web site: http://www.sabrenet.edu.au

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John Humphreys

Bio:

John is an ex-pat New Zealander who has been working in Silicon Valley for 20 years. He is a veteran of the IT industry and has spent much his career developing and marketing enterprise class networking and security products. Prior to joining Infoblox, John held senior positions in Hewlett-Packard, UB Networks, Madge Networks, and Ramp Networks. John holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Victoria University and an MBA from Northwestern University.

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Identity Driven Networks - Challenges and Solutions for Education

Abstract:

Networking professionals in Australian schools and universities must meet the needs of many communities: students, faculty, administration, and others. These communities often expect different services and are more or less willing to accept centralized policies and management of their networking services.

Adding to this complexity is the trend of explosive growth in the number and types of network users, devices, and applications. Demands on the network are growing from new applications such as mobile networks and voice over IP (VoIP), new security measures for perimeter protection, and new government regulations. This paper will examine conventional solutions for delivering basic network identity services¡Xsuch as assigning IP addresses to devices (DHCP), providing domain name services (DNS), authenticating users (RADIUS), and distributing policies (LDAP) and argue that these approaches are under stress because they were not designed for the levels of reliability, scalability, security, or control needed to meet current and emerging requirements.

We will examine some of the key issues in addressing this emerging network identity crisis. The paper will discuss approaches to building identity-driven networks (IDNs), in which user and application-level security, accountability, and auditability are built into the network fabric. IDNs provide substantial benefits, including:

The paper will draw on case studies from Australian and U.S. universities to help illustrate trends and solutions.

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Jon Farrell

Bio:

Jon Farrell¡¦s IT experience spans more than twenty years. During this time, his work has encompassed data communications, voice, video & data Integration, and collaborative technologies.

Jon joined Dimension Data as Systems Engineer in 1996, focusing on Infrastructure and NOS Technologies from vendors including Cisco Systems and Microsoft. As part of his role, Jon delivered pre-sales and post-sales solutions for numerous large clients.

In 2004, Jon completed the Microsoft Live Communications Server (LCS) Airlift, and also counts Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) among his qualifications.

Before moving to Dimension Data, Jon spent 5 years supporting the LAN/WAN and NOS environments around Novell, Cisco and Microsoft technologies for the Victoria Police IT department.

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Collaboration using LCS Instant Messaging Telephony

Abstract:

Instant Messaging has proven to be a double edged sword for organisations. While wide-spread productivity benefits of this technology are well known, the threat of security breaches and corporate misuse result in most organisations either disregarding or even banning this exciting technology. Microsoft¡¦s entry into this space with Live Communications Server (LCS) resolves these issues. LCS provides a secure, scalable, enterprise-grade Instant Messaging (IM) and presence solution, together with telephony capabilities (third party call control).

LCS, together with its SIP-based client, Microsoft Office Communicator, provides an instant message and presence awareness infrastructure for IT organisations that want to provide their employees with the power of collaborative tools without the potential security and legal exposure that comes with free IM. It also enables enterprises to reclaim corporate identity from public services such as MSN, AOL and Yahoo. LCS also extends IM and other real-time communication capabilities to trusted partners, customers and suppliers and supports peer-to-peer audio, video, application-sharing and data collaboration.

Collaborative Infrastructure is defined as any technology that enables people to collaborate with other people or other processes such as workflow. Emerging technology in this area will become a major factor in the quest for greater productivity. Dimension Data has been proactive in building significant skills around key Collaborative Infrastructure components including IM, IP telephony, presence technologies and workflow.

Jon¡¦s session will not only educate those new to LCS but also update those already aware of the capabilities of this technology, specifically with regard to the Telephony Integration story and the lessons learnt.

The session will address the following areas:

The session will also include a practical demonstration of Microsoft LCS with Cisco CallManager click-to-call integration, Tandberg videoconferencing integration and endpoint control.

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Jon Mason

Bio:

Jon Mason is currently working as the Editor for the e-Framework, a collaboration involving DEST and JISC (UK) as initial foundation partners. Prior to taking on this role he was an Executive Consultant at education.au limited. Since 2000 he has played a key role in IMS Australia, developing Australian engagement in international e-learning specifications and standards development. He chairs the Standards Australia IT-019-1 Committee and heads the Australian delegation to ISO/IEC JTC1 SC36, IT in Learning, Education and Training and is also an active participant in the IMS Global Learning Consortium and the IEEE LTSC. Jon is also the Associate Editor for the International Journal of Learning Technology. Jon previously worked as an information technology manager at the University of Melbourne.

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Kerry Blinco

Bio:

Kerry Blinco is an independent consultant and technical adviser to DEST. She is the co-manager of the e-Framework Operations Group and the e-Framework and Standards Manager within the RUBRIC project. She participates in a range of international e-learning technical standards activities with IMS, ISO, NISO, and the IEEE LTSC and collaborative activities with organizations such as the JISC's Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS). Kerry's particular focus is on frameworks and architectural models, the intersection between learning and information environments, and identity management. She has been involved in a number of national and international collaborative projects win both e-learning and the information environment, representing a variety of institutions including IMS Australia, Macquarie University, the Australian Vice-Chancellor's Committee and Griffith University. These projects include the Digital Library Federation Repositories Study for the Andrew W Mellon Foundation,

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Update on the e-Framework for Education and Research

Abstract:

This presentation will provide an update on activities and recent developments associated with the e-Framework for Education and Research, an international collaboration initiated late in 2005 involving DEST (Australia) and JISC (UK) as foundation partners. The context in which the e-Framework operates is the evolving technical infrastructure that supports the education and research communities. First and foremost, the e-Framework aims to facilitate technical interoperability within and across education and research through improved strategic planning and implementation processes. A key outcome will be the development of an open standards-based, service-oriented technical framework to support the education and research communities. The "e" in the initiative is intended to signify a broad scope in technical infrastructure development, spanning the five key areas within higher education: teaching and learning, administration, information technology services, research, and library services. This infrastructure

It is recognised that in order to achieve the desired flexibility as well as sustainability of the effort the development of the Framework will be necessarily incremental. Its success or otherwise is very much dependent upon engagement of stakeholders and contributions made by them. New partners have been identified and there are plans to extend community involvement over the next year.

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Mike Hicks

Bio:

Mike Hicks is currently the Principal Consultant for Advanced Networking at Compuware. With a long career providing support to complex corporate networks throughout, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, including the Ford Motor Company, Cisco Systems, Singapore Airlines, ANZ Bank, Telstra and the European Space agency, Mike works closely with many infrastructure vendors in the area of Application profiling, and management. Mike is also the author of Managing Distributed Applications: Trouble shooting in a heterogeneous environment (Prentice Hall 2000) and Optimising Applications on Cisco Networks (Cisco Press 2004); as well as several white papers on the subject of Application delivery and optimisation.

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Abstract:

Preparation is the key to deploying and managing converged networks -

With the exponential growth in the deployment of VoIP across the enterprise; converged communications systems are changing the way businesses communicate, driving improved operational efficiencies, reducing costs and offering a centralised, reliable telephony network that is easier to manage

An organisations choice to adopt VoIP is often no longer a question of if, but when. Driven by promises of reduced network infrastructure costs and increased productivity through converged applications, many organizations are deploying or evaluating the feasibility of VoIP.

Since enterprise VoIP deployments first began, there have been a number of great successes, and there has also been a number of high-profile disasters; Dow Chemical, Carnegie Mellon, Merrill Lynch, and others who began wide-scale deployments only to back out or change direction due to quality and acceptance issues. In cases like these, the cost of failed deployment can be millions of dollars.

Although each case is unique, the general pitfalls incurred in these and ongoing projects have included the underestimation of VoIP by treating it ¡§as just another application on the network¡¨. Frequently telephony-grade voice quality has simply been expected without benchmarking performance through the reliance on a single view ¡¨snapshot¡¨ network assessment and a focus on infrastructure requirements, without any consideration for both voice-related and business critical applications.

This session will discuss the creation of a final architecture and user migration plan that will align the proposed converged network with your business needs and requirements.

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Craig Stevens

Bio:

Craig is a Consulting Solutions Architect working for Cisco's Service Provider Wireline business. In this Asia Pacific role he has the opportunity to engage with customers to understand both their business and technical requirements to ensure that the Cisco architectures meet both.

Craig has been in the communications industry for twenty years starting from the early days of IBM's SNA through the age of the internet to today's era of convergence. Craig's background is in technical support, software development and more recently service architectures. He has held various engineering and leadership positions in companies including Fujitsu, Proteon, Bay Networks, Xylogics and Nortel. Craig has also been a speaker at various international conferences.

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Factoring Lower Networking Layers into the GRiD

Abstract:

The presentation will provide an overview of GriD technology and GriD architecture including applications for High Performance Computing (HPC).

Applications pertaining to the medical, enterprise, pharmaceutical industries (and others) are very relevant today and not restricted to research environments. The presenter will describe emerging optical technology upon which GriD applications will operate.

Note further that the next generation of advanced optical networks will see not only a tighter coupling of the control plane with IP, they also need to satisfy all requirements coming from bandwidth-intensive users and applications, as well as from distributed and computational Grids. Finally, the presentation will cover what it means to factor lower networking layers (layers 1, 2 and 3) into the Grid, with a focus on layer 7.

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Nick Bromhead

Bio:

Nick has worked in the wireless industry for over 10 years initially in R&D and more recently in product marketing. He has recently been involved in the deployment of Australia's largest wireless broadband network. Nick is now exploring how wireless broadband can be made more widely available with WiMAX technology and the impact on today¡¦s organisations.

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Emerging wireless broadband technologies.

Abstract:

The presentation will look at emerging wireless broadband technologies (specifically WiMAX) and the changes these are likely to bring to both consumers and enterprises. WiMAX is a new IEEE standard designed to build on the success of WiFi for local networks by creating a high capability technology for wide area networks. It combines the latest in air interface technologies and QoS (quality of service) to deliver the full range of services being envisaged for wired broadband services. New technologies include OFDM (orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) and MIMO (multiple input multiple output) antenna systems.

Just as mobile phones changed voice communications from being a shared resource to a personal resource, wireless broadband will also see broadband move from being a shared resource to being a personal resource. To help illustrate the convergence wireless broadband is helping to facilitate, new service models will be investigated. The presentation will cover how this will impact Education. For example, a University may offer its students a full range of telecommunications services through its own campus infrastructure and wholesale services that connect students when away from the campus. Students would be connected via WiMAX when they're off campus and WiFi on campus. They would have access to VoIP for internal and external calls, conference calling for study groups, video feeds of lectures or tutorials.

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Paul Brauer

Bio:

Paul has over 9 years experience as a network engineer, and has recently joined NetStar as a Solutions Architect having previously been a Senior Solutions Architect at Logicalis / Cerulean Networks (division of IBM).

Paul has gained an exceptional reputation in the industry as one of the most accomplished and experienced Cisco engineers available. His most recent experience includes the delivery of key IP Communications / Convergence projects for high profile customers including Swinburne University of Technology, Mercy Health & Aged Care, TRU Energy, and Optus.

Paul has numerous Cisco certifications including CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP and has a specialization in Cisco IPCC Express. Paul is also currently studying for his CCIE Voice certification.

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Swinburne - The fully Converged Network

Abstract:

In 2005, Swinburne took their network refresh project out to tender. Netstar was the successful tenderer and awarded the refresh. The project not only refreshed the entire Swinburne data network, but brought significant enhancements and new technology into the network.

Through the project, a true converged network was born. All infrastructure deployed was capable of supporting convergence to its fullest capability. MPLS technology was deployed to secure these new technologies and to provide maximum utilization of bandwidth.

Being a university of technology, Swinburne has always been at the leading edge. The network refresh continued with that legacy. Existing advanced technologies such as IP Telephony were upgraded with new hardware and to the latest software versions, enabling new features such as Video over IP. The existing voice mail system was replaced with Cisco Unity providing Unified messaging with Novell Groupwise. Faxing and SMS was also integrated with Groupwise extending Unified messaging services.

The wireless network was redesigned and refreshed, providing better coverage and more intelligence to improve student services and to extend telephony functionality. Moving forward from the refresh, video conferencing is now being redefined. Utilizing the existing video conferencing infrastructure and the upgraded telephony environment, voice and video will be seamlessly integrated. This will result in improved teaching services to remote campuses such as Malaysia and reduced travel costs for teaching staff.

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Richard Constantine

Bio:

Richard Constantine has over 18 years experience in the IT Industry and is currently the Chief Information Officer and Director of Information Technology Services at Swinburne University of Technology. He has extensive experience in education within the tertiary and TAFE sectors as well as in Industry as an IT Consultant and many years ago as a pre/post sales engineer.

His responsibilities include IT Strategy, Communications Technology Infrastructure, Applications and major IT projects for the University's operations across all of Swinburne's campuses.

Richard's qualifications include a post graduate diploma in Management Studies from Melbourne Business School, The University of Melbourne and a Masters of Business Administration from Monash University in which he took a keen interest in Technology Management.

Richard is also the Chairperson of the board of Infoxchange - a not for profit, social justice organisation working to bring the benefits of technology to all, using multiple strategies to address societies' so called 'digital divide'.

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Paul Ducklin

Bio:

Paul Ducklin is Head of Technology, Asia Pacific at Sophos. He joined Sophos from the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in 1995. He has held a variety of roles within Sophos, including running software development in the UK office, and heading up Sophos' global technical support operations.

One of the world's leading virus experts, Paul has given papers and presentations at many industry events including conferences such as Virus Bulletin, AVAR and AusCERT. He is an experienced and entertaining presenter, and a respected industry spokesperson.

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Enabling New Technologies Without Disabling Your Network

Abstract:

You can't do much on the internet these days, especially in a collaborative research environment, without embracing the use of decentralised technologies for information sharing. (This is a fancy way of saying "peer-to-peer systems".)

Being able to publish and share information quickly and without bureaucracy is important, but it is also risky -- because once in place, the technologies to do this are often easily subverted and exploited by criminal elements.

Managing the risks without getting in the way of progress is a tricky balancing act. This paper looks at ways of doing so, in particular how to:

o    Centrally enable, administer and support software which itself strongly supports decentralisation;

o    Identify and deal with some common security and privacy problems which can arise from the unregulated use of such software;

o    Manage the almost inevitable complaints about "bureaucratic interference" arising from (1) and (2) above.

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Phil Edholm

Bio:

Phil Edholm is the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Strategy and Architecture for Nortel¡¦s Enterprise Solutions and Packet Networks group. Leveraging his experience as a technology leader across Nortel enterprise line of data and voice networking products, Phil focuses on the Nortel Enterprise Portfolio and packet and optical solutions for Service Providers. In this role, he is responsible for defining the vision and architecture in the enterprise and next generation packet/optical networks. He also is responsible for portfolio architecture, strategy, and advanced network engineering. In this role he and his team drive the technologies and architectures across the ESPN portfolio that delivers systems value and capability.

At Nortel, Phil has led the development of VoIP solutions and multimedia communications as well as IP transport technology. Phil¡¦s background includes extensive LAN and data communications experience, including 9 years with Sytek/Hughes LAN Systems and 4 years with Silicon Valley start-ups. Phil was a member of the IEEE 802.3 standards committee during the definition of broadband Ethernet and 10BaseT, developed the first multi-protocol network interfaces, and was a founder of the Frame Relay Forum. He has been a featured speaker at many international conferences and is recognized as an industry visionary and leader of the convergence transformation. Phil has been in the VoiceCon Great Debate three times. Phil has been recognized by the IEEE as the originator of ¡§Edholm¡¦s Law of Bandwidth¡¨ as published in July 2003 IEEE Spectrum magazine. Phil has 7 patents with 18 patent applications pending. He holds a BSME/EE from GMI/Kettering University.

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Networking Discontinuities - Opportunities and Challenges

Abstract:

Network Convergence is leading to disruptive technologies around Virtualisation, Hyper-interactivity, Webification and Omni-Networking. These new technologies, products, and solutions will not only offer organisations key opportunities to create strategic advantage and new services, but they introduce new challenges as well. Implementing these solutions requires new thinking and is transforming the relationships between organisations, their vendor partners and the channels that integrate solutions. In this session, Phil Edholm, CTO and Vice President Architecture and Strategy will discuss Nortel's vision of the coming communications world and the way technologies will come together to transform the way we work and interact. Phil will discuss how these technologies can enable new ways for your organisation to provide services to both students and staff. In addition, he will outline some of the challenges that will emerge and how Nortel is working in the standards community to make the systems of the future work in multi vendor environments, across organisational and service provider boundaries.

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Robert Dolphin

Bio:

Rob Dolphin has worked in the telecommunications industry since 1981 and has been with Nortel since 1989. Rob¡¦s experience spans both the carrier and enterprise business. Rob has had extensive experience in the design and deployment of a number of data and voice networks across the region, as well as working with a number of large corporations on the deployment of their converged IP networks. Recently Rob has been appointed the role of Senior Architect for Asia Pacific to help drive Converged, Collaboration solutions across the region.

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Enabling Secure Realtime Media with SIP

Abstract:

Tertiary Education institutions are increasingly looking toward modern communications tools to enhance both the academic and business sides of their operations. Increased communications using many types of real time media between students, lecturers and staff both within and between institutions are enabling a better student experience and learning environment. By leveraging existing IP network infrastructures and embracing open standards such as SIP, any to any collaboration can be achieved between interested parties. As this kind of open communication becomes more prolific there is an increasing concern over privacy and potential interception by third parties.

To mitigate the risks of such interception organisations are looking to encryption technologies to provide privacy. Secure Real Time Protocol (SRTP) provides a well tested and standards based method of achieving this encryption. The difficulty in implementing SRTP in a scalable and flexible fashion is the mechanism by which encryption keys are exchanged between the communicating endpoints.

As SIP is emerging as the protocol of choice for negotiating media sessions there is a lot of work being carried out in the IETF to determine what methods of key exchange should be adopted for standardisation.

A number of protocols exist or are under development such as SDESCRIPTIONS, MIKEY/KMGMT, ZRTP, EKT and RTP/DTLS. Each of these methods has different tradeoffs relating to their level of security, relative complexity and handling of scenarios such as call forking and early media.

This presentation will provide an overview of these methods and discuss the pros and cons of each.

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Dr. Rodney G. McDuff

Bio:

Rodney McDuff is currently the Manager of the Strategic Technologies Group with the Information Technology Services at The University of Queensland. Whilst at ITS Rodney has also been responsible for the planning, implementation and maintenance of core IT infrastructure services, applications and systems at UQ. He has also previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Advanced Computation Modelling Centre.

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SIP ain't SIMPLE

Abstract:

The University of Queensland has undertaken a feasibility study to determine how we can construct an open flexible scalable multi-modal communications solution to supplement our current PSTN telephony system using common freely available components as well as various commercial products. Such a communications solution based on SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) holds the promise to provide a platform that will surpass our current telephony technology and revolutionize the work place and the campus community through an integrated collaboration infrastructure based on video, instant messaging and presence enabled services. However there are still many challenges dealing with interoperability, quality of service, high availability and security that cloud this promise. This talk discusses how The University of Queensland has met these challenges.

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Rod Swile

Bio:

Rod Swile has been employed in the IT industry for 17 years with 11 years at the Queensland University of Technology. He has had had a diverse set of experience in areas such as desktop management, systems management and systems development. Have undertaken several projects in the areas such as business systems analysis and automation for a large manufacturing company and most recently, in the re-development of DNS at QUT.

QUT IPAMS Upgrade Project 2003: From Delegation to Deployment.

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Abstract:

DNS and IPAMS (IP address management systems) tend to fly below the radar for CIO's and senior managers at QUT. There is no visible benefit to our major clients, in our case the student, so why bother? There is a whole new world of services gaining critical mass and creating new challenges for IT professionals such as wireless, VPN gateways, Eduroam, etc..

For us at QUT the answer was in fact in the question, "Why Bother". Why bother in developing a 100% fit solution when you can get off the shelf 90% fit.

In this presentation we will explore the rational behind QUT' refocus of DNS and IPAMS and how we came to the solution we did. It will explore some key but often overlooked issue regarding DNS such as managing the deployment and note the new challenges in managing the system vertically.

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Bruce Williams

Bio:

Bruce Williams, Principal Network Engineer, Griffith University

Bruce Williams is the Principal Network Engineer at Griffith University. He is responsible for the day to day operation of the Griffith University network as well as steering technical development and enhancements.

He graduated from QUT with a Bachelor of Information Technology in 1995. Began work at Griffith University in 1996 in client service dealing with modems and remote access. Continued working at Griffith as a Network Support Officer and eventually Network Engineer. In 1998, codeveloped the "Snapper" student network quota-ing system, but later continued to support and enhance the product individually. In 2001/2002 was instrumental in developing Griffith's new "NetCheck" Internet accounting system by adapting the Cisco SSG feature to a LAN network model.

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Sudath Wijeratne

Bio:

Sudath Wijeratne, Manager of the Infrastructure Continuity and Architectural Services Group, ICTS, Griffith University

Sudath Wijeratne is currently the Manager of the Infrastructure Continuity and Architectural Services (ICAS) Group in Information and Communication Technology Services Division (ICTS) at Griffith University.

He is responsible for implementing sound Corporate Technology Architecture practices, implementation of key ITIL service delivery components such as Availability, Continuity and Capacity Management and management of all corporate Data Centres.

He is also currently Project Managing the Disaster Recovery Project as part of responsibility for ITIL Continuity management process implementation.

Sudath held a number of positions over a decade of his career at Griffith University in Corporate Technology Infrastructure and Corporate Information Systems sections. He played a key role in implementation of PeopleSoft Enterprise Resource planning Systems at the University. He holds a Master of Science Degree in Computer Systems and Networks at St Petersburg electronic University, Russia.

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Virtual Server Campus Network Design and Disaster Recovery

Abstract:

Griffith University is implemented a Virtual campus network between its Major campuses (Nathan and Gold Coast) and are currently in the process of implementing Disaster Recovery for our Learning Management system (Black Board. This presentation will talk about Virtual Server Campus implementation and the utilisation of this network for implementation of DR.

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Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti

Bio:

Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti is the Managing Director of the Internet Business Solutions team at Cisco Systems Inc. In her current role she leads Higher Education institutions in innovation and excellence by using the Internet to achieve institutional goals. Before joining the Internet Business Solutions Group, Tracey held a number of positions at Cisco for the past eleven years in the areas of Business Development, Marketing, and Operations. Prior to Cisco, Tracey held executive positions at Hewlett Packard and Apple Computer.

Tracey holds an MBA and Doctorate in International Business and is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University. She has been an adjunct professor for graduate and doctoral programs for a number of Bay Area universities for the past 15 years. Her areas of expertise are International Business, Leadership, and Women Studies. Tracey was recently named San Francisco Women of the year, by the Women in Business Organization in San Francisco, for her outreach in the field of academia, women¡¦s research, and technology.

Tracey was recognized in 1995 as a notable forthcoming modern academic researcher on women in International Business. She has authored to date six (6) books which include: Mexico for Women in Business, International Business: A Basic Guide for Women, Europe for Women in Business, and co-authored Asia for Woman in Business, Doing Business with Western women: A guide for Japanese men and Doing Business with Japanese Men which made the LA time best new notable non-fiction business book. In addition, she has published numerous articles, chapters, and essays regarding international business. Addressing the topic of Women, Leadership, and International business, she is a frequent guest on national television and radio (CNN, FNN, ABC, NBC, and CBS), interviewed in news columns: LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Business Journal and a speaker for key Universities (Stanford, UCLA, Berkeley, and NYU) and business groups (WITI, NAWBO, and AMA) Her website is www.globalwomen.biz.

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The 21st Century University

Abstract:

Higher Education is in transition due to changes in shifts in demographics, globalization, pervasive technology, the technology savvy student, and global competition. In addition, Universities are undergoing reforms in countries due to continued budget pressures. At the same time Universities need to keep their focus on the future and developing a competitive workforce.

The 21st Century University will cover these trends and what some higher education institutions are doing to address the future. Examples will cover both the physical and virtual campus, continual innovation, and how Universities are planning to remain competitive. Topics covered will include both strategies and actual implementations of what is taking place on global campuses. Key examples will highlight how various institutions use technology to enhance services and meet the needs of the new incoming students.

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Viviani Paz

Bio:

Viviani Paz is the Security Assurance Manager for AusCERT (The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team) based at The University of Queensland. Prior to joining AusCERT in 1997, Viviani worked in a range of IT areas including: system and network security; project management, system programming and administration; and software testing in the Commercial and Academic sectors.

The Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) provides a single, trusted point of contact in Australia for the Internet community to deal with computer security incidents and their prevention.

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The Australian Higher Education and Research sectors Certification Authority

Federation

Abstract:

The Australian Higher Education and Research sectors Certification Authority Federation project is part of a larger effort from Australian Higher Education Sector with support from AusCERT, CAUDIT, the University of Queensland, the Department of Education, Science and Training and other universities to develop an environment in which Universities can collaborate and interoperate with each other at low cost and low risk.

This project builds on previous CAUDIT PKI and MAMS projects to establish a production Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for the University and Research Sector, based on the standards developed in the previous project, and to develop a pilot federation which leverages the PKI infrastructure in aligning the trust arrangements between institutions to support the implementation of Shibboleth across the sector. It also seeks to lower the barriers of entry to PKI using open source software. The project outcomes would be to enable the secure sharing of resources and research infrastructure across the domestic sector and with international partners.

The aim of this project is to develop and ultimately implement a PKI for CAUDIT universities (which include universities in Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and Papua New Guinea) and the CAUDIT research community. To achieve this goal the project team is working closely with other projects such as Meta Access Management System Project (MAMS) and Middleware Action Plan and Strategy (MAPS). A phased approach is being used in order to test interoperability and find out issues regarding PKI enabled applications prior to production implementation.