Arth Paulite

Arth is the Infrastructure Services Manager for APNIC, his role focuses on maintaining high availability and reliability of APNIC critical services and network infrastructure.

Arth started his career in 1993 as a Systems support Engineer in the Philippines while finishing off Computer Engineering degree. IN 1995, he joined Destiny Cable and helped established the first cable internet in the Philippines.

DNSSEC

Overview

Course Overview

The DNS (or the Domain Name System) is a distributed, hierarchical system for mapping domain names to IP addresses. As it plays a critical role in the functioning of the Internet infrastructure, the DNS is often the target of malicious activities.

This course will outline the DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) protocol that protects against data spoofing.

Course Outline

This course will cover the following topics:

DNS Vulnerabilities
What is DNSSEC?
How DNSSEC Works
RRs and RRsets
DNSKEY
RRSIG
NSEC Record
NSEC RDATA
Chain of Trust
Types of Keys & Generating Key Pairs
Setting up a Secure Zone

Course Materials

Slides: DNSSEC Download

Shane Hermoso

Sheryl (Shane) Hermoso is a Network Operations Engineer and a Senior Technical Trainer at APNIC. Before joining APNIC, Shane had various roles as a Network Engineer, managing the enterprise network backbone and wireless infrastructure. Shane regularly presents on routing issues at conference and training events throughout the Asia Pacific.