Conference Plenary
NB: All times in Fiji Timezone (+12UTC)
DAY 1 - TUESDAY - 29th June 2021
Venue: Online
10:30: Video Conference session opens for registered participants
10:55: Video Conference platform access locked
10:55: Welcome and Introduction to Keynote Speaker
- Fred Christopher: PITA General Manager, PacNOG
11:00: Keynote Welcome
- George Samisoni: PITA President & CEO of Fintel
11:05: General Remarks and Introduction
- Fred Christopher: PITA General Manager, PacNOG
- Philip Smith: PacNOG Committee, APRICOT Chair, NSRC Senior Network Engineer
11:10: APNIC Services Update
- Elly Tawhai: APNIC
- Abstract: This presentation focuses on IRT validation and
highlights the importance for Incident Response Teams in the Pacific
to validate their IRT objects every six months. We also cover IRT
validation policy and statistics, and news from ISIF ASIA.
- Presentation Slides
11:35: Identifier Technology Health Indicators (ITHI)
- Savenaca Vocea: Vice President Engagement Oceania, ICANN
- Abstract: ITHI, or Identifier Technologies Health
Indicators, is an ICANN initiative to measure the "health" of the
identifier system that ICANN helps coordinate. The goal is to
produce a set of indicators that will be measured and tracked over
time which can be used to determine if the system of identifiers is
overall doing better or worse. This is a long-term project, expected
to run for a number of years. We are reaching out to invite more
partners (ISPs and TLD operators) to participate in this project.
- Presentation Slides
11:50: IPv6 Deployment: Dual-stack or IPv6-only?
- Jordi Palet Martinez: The IPv6 Company
- Abstract: The presentation explains why, today, deploying a
complete dual-stack network (for both wireline and cellular ISPs)
doesn't make any sense, even not using CGN, and instead it makes
sense to deploy as much as possible IPv6-only access (sometimes even
in other parts of the network, including DCs) and IPv4aaS (IPv4 as a
Service), and possible approaches for that.
- Presentation Slides
12:20: Fiji Internet Exchange Point (IXP) update and next level
of services
- Magnesh Reddy: Telecommunications Authority of Fiji
- Abstract: This session aims to provide an overview and
update status of the Fiji IXP and recent upgrades. It will also
share on the new initiatives in implementing security baselines for
the IXP, incorporating security and vulnerability assessments in its
design and developments.
- Presentation Slides
12:35: USP network and FJ Domain update
- Kisione Finau, Edwin Sandys, and Navneet Maharaj: University of South Pacific
- Abstract: USP is the largest education institution in the
Pacific having over 30,000 students and operates a largest private
Wide Area Network (WAN) across 33 Million Square K/Meters in the
Pacific. Also it incorporating an array of local area campus
networks, server and management systems throughout its 12 member
countries in the Pacific with the main campus in Fiji as the hub.
USP has a very large and complex Network Infrastructure also deploy
various technologies including IPv6.
USP is also the ccTLD Administrator for the dot FJ domain since the
inception of Internet and the first organization in Fiji to use
Internet.
Ensuring that USP remains effective, a team of network engineers
work around day and night to provide the critical infrastructure and
platforms for USP to function. IT Services is regarded as an
indispensable driving force within the USP. ICT is pervasive; it
touches and profoundly impacts every aspect of the University
activities.
This presentation will provide the History - FJ Domain, Challenges,
PKI, DNS Security, IPv6, Platform Upgrade, Opportunities, Future
development in these areas.
- Presentation Slides
13:00: Lunch Break
13:55: Participants rejoin Video Conference
14:00: Star Engineer Meet the Challenge Session: Virtualization
and Importance of Backup & Redundancy.
- Nathan Jr Waleiole: Solomon Telekom
- Abstract: I will be speaking about my experience working
with a virtual environment. I will be highlighting one of my
experience with management and mitigation of an incident in the
virtual environment. I will close off and stress the importance of
redundancy and backup in virtual and physical environment with
regards to the IT industry.
- Presentation Slides
14:15: Beyond your network, why Routing Security requires global collaborative effort
- Kunal Raj: ISOC MANRS Fellow; APNIC Community Trainer; Senior Security, Research, Innovation Engineer at Telecom Fiji
- Abstract: This presentation focuses on MANRS and its
actions that operators should consider beyond their network, why
Routing Security requires global collaborative effort to validate
routing information on a global scale. We will cover automated
information validation and securing global routing information using
RPKI. For the Pacific NOG members, working steps of going about
creating and publishing ROAs will be presented. As an example, a
deployment guide of Routinator which can be used for RPKI Validation
will also be provided with references for monitoring and visibility.
- Presentation Slides
14:55: Dealing with Unwanted Traffic and Network Attacks, Threats and Intrusions: Team Cymru Community Services
- Brian Davenport: Solutions Engineer Community Services, Team Cymru
- Abstract: This session will introduce Team Cymru and
their roles in the area of network threats and attacks. Brian will
also discuss tools and methods using network traffic to detect and
prevent threats and the role of community services to prevent DDOS
attacks.
- Presentation Slides
15:30: Country Update: Solomon Telekom
- Faiz Tuke: Solomon Telekom
- Abstract: General network update on developments,
traffic performance. Changes since arrival of CS2 submarine
cable and traffic performance since. Operational experience and
mitigation with significant events (internally or externally),
plans to improve service resilience with upgrade to 2nd
mobile core and improved IT infrastructure redundancy.
Network capability and readiness/status for IPv6, current
status. Need assistance from experts on migration as well as
staff internal training on IPv6. Network attacks, intrusions
Organisational changes and appointment of an Information &
Network Security Manager and SOC team. Partnership with IONIZE
https://www.ionize.com.au/ to develop HAWC SOC. New normal:
work from home developments; Rocket chat + Jitsi implementation
and Zoom subscription.
- Presentation Slides
15:55: Cyber Security Case Study: OGCIO/Vanuatu CERT
- Jeffrey Garae: Cyber Security Advisor, Vanuatu CERT, OGCIO
- Abstract: Cyber Security Case Study from Vanuatu
- Presentation slides are available by direct request to Jeffrey only.
16:25: Closing Remarks
16:40: Close
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