Title A high performance computing cluster under attack : the titan incident / Mark-David J. McLaughlin, W. Alec Cram, Janis L. Gogan

Published London : Palgrave MacMillan UK, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series SAGE Knowledge. Cases SAGE Knowledge. Cases Summary At the University of Oslo (UiO), CERT manager Margrete Raaum learned of a network attack on Titan, a high-performance computing cluster that supported research conducted by scientists at CERT and other research institutions across Europe. The case describes the incident response, investigation, and clarification of the information security events that took place. As soon as Raaum learned of the attack, she ordered that the system be disconnected from the Internet to contain the damage. Next, she launched an investigation, which over a few days pieced together logs from previous weeks to identify suspicious activity and locate the attack vector. Raaum hopes to soon return Titan to its prior safe condition. In order to do so, she must decide what tasks still need to be completed to validate the systems and determine if it is safe to reconnect it to the Internet. She must also consider further steps to improve her team's ability to prevent, detect, and respond to similar incidents in the future. This case is designed for an undergraduate or graduate information security (infosec) class that includes students with varied technical and business backgrounds. The case supports discussion of technical and managerial infosec issues in interorganizational systems - a topic that is currently underrepresented in major case collections Notes Originally Published InMcLaughlin, M-D. J., Cram, W. A., & Gogan, J. L. (2015). A high performance computing cluster under attack: The Titan incident. Journal of Information Technology Teaching Cases, 5, 1-7 Description based on XML content Subject Raaum, Margrete Universitetet i Oslo. SUBJECT Universitetet i Oslo fast Subject Titan (Computer) -- Security measures -- Case studies Computer security -- Grünerløkka (Oslo, Norway) -- Case studies Computer security Norway -- Oslo -- Grünerløkka Genre/Form Case studies Case studies. Études de cas. Form Electronic book Author Cram, W. Alec, author Gogan, Janis Lee, author ISBN 9781526478559 1526478552

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