Arth Paulite

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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.

Champika Wijayatunga

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Champika is the Technical Engagement Manager for the Asia Pacific region at Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Prior to ICANN, Champika held managerial, specialist and liaison roles at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC), the Regional Internet Registry for the Asia Pacific. He started his career with IBM Corporation as a Technical Specialist and later worked in IT industry, academia, research, and training environments. He also serves in various technical community groups and committees.

DNSSEC

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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

Shane Hermoso

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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.