A Security Practitioner's Guide to Internet Measurement - Understanding and Improving Network Security Through Data

Explore a keynote presentation from NANOG where Michael Bailey shares insights from two decades of Internet measurement and security research. Learn how large-scale measurement techniques like Internet telescopes, active scanning, and Netflow have been used to study and enhance Internet protocols (IPv4, IPv6), services (BGP, DNS), and applications (email, web). Discover how security principles have shaped the evolution of network measurement approaches, particularly in addressing man-in-the-middle attacks, spam, worms, botnets, and DDoS attacks. Gain valuable perspective on how this security-focused measurement philosophy can be applied to understanding current network quality and designing future networks. Drawing from Mary Walton's "The Deming Management Method," understand the critical role of data-driven decision making in Internet security and infrastructure management.