A Cyber Range Evaluation of Autonomous Network Incident Response Agents

We test the performance of agents for automated network intrusion response in a cyber range intended for human operator training. The range implements an emulated networking environment with a variable network topology, red-team emulation and simulated user agents. The goal of the defensive agent...

Akamai’s DDoS Mitigation Service Triggers Outages

UPDATE Major financial institutions, airlines and the Hong Kong stock exchange were knocked offline by a backfiring distributed denial-of-service DDoS mitigation service Thursday. The hour-long outage, which was triggered at approximately 1 a.m. EST Thursday, is tied to Akamai Technology’s...