Agenda

Mohammed Al Ghamdi (KACST)

• Technical Hands-on Workshop
• Deploying IPv4 and IPv6
• Network Infrastructure Design
• Routing Protocols (OSPF and BGP)
• Multihoming (BGP Policies)

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This workshop is a mix of theory and labs. Participants should bring their own laptops. Participants should be familiar with popular DNS, as well as Linux/Unix concepts and commands.

• Technical Hands-on Workshop
• Deploying DNS Servers
• Reliable DNS Design
• Sizing DNS for Load
• Securing DNS Servers

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This session focuses on the basic requirements necessary to improve
backbone security. It reviews features and techniques available to help
improve security by hardening the core network.

This session reviews security best practices, security recommendations,
and router features to mitigate direct infrastructure attack. It covers
the deployment of specific features and using them to improve backbone
security. This session is designed for network engineers and security
professionals in service provider & enterprise environments.

Layer 2 Attacks and Mitigation Techniques session focuses on the
security issues surrounding Layer 2, the data-link layer. With a
significant percentage of network attacks originating inside the
corporate firewall, exploring this soft underbelly of data networking is
critical for any secure network design.

Security issues addressed in this session include ARP spoofing, MAC
flooding, VLAN hopping, DHCP attacks, and Spanning Tree Protocol
concerns. Common myths about Ethernet switch security are confirmed or
debunked, and specific security lockdown recommendations are given.
Attack mitigation options include the new DHCP snooping and Dynamic ARP
Inspection (DAI) functionality.

Attendees can expect to learn Layer 2 design considerations from a
security perspective and mitigation techniques for Layer 2 attacks. This
session is for network designers, administrators, and engineers in all
areas of data networking.

Session Chair: Osama Al Dosary, MENOG Chairman

MENOG Community Welcome – Osama Al Dosary, MENOG Chairman

Session Chair: Paul Rendek, RIPE NCC

Website and Application Code Changes for IPv6 Readiness – Ahmed Abu-Abed (Tamkien Systems)

Saudi Arabia IPv6 Deployment Updates – Rayed Al-Rashed (CITC)

XS4ALL Experience Deploying IPv6 – Marco Hogewoning (XS4ALL)

Separating the facts from the fiction. Should introducing IPv6 on your network be rocket science? Based on real life experiences, this talk addresses some of the problems  to overcome when trying to get a few hundred thousand residential users to start using IPv6 without them noticing. From CPE selection to convincing the management to green-light your plan. Nobody said it would be easy, but it certainly can be fun.

Session Chair: Mehmet Akcin, ICANN

Building a Terabit Internet Exchange – Arnold Nipper (DE-CIX)

All of the large Internet Exchanges in the world where not built from scratch, but evolved over a long time. This presentation shows the evolution of the Internet Exchange DE-CIX (Frankfurt, Germany) from a single switch to a highly resilient, robust and scalable, yet simple switching infrastructure which is able to handle several Terabit/s of traffic with given, i.e. 10Gigabit Ethernet technology.

Testing Multiple Route Servers and Peering DB – Arnold Nipper (DE-CIX) and Mehmet Akcin (ICANN)

Session Chair: Kais Al-Essa, Sahara Net

Report on Internet Usage in Saudi Arabia – Anas M. Assiri (CITC)

Policy Update and Resource Statistics (Middle East) – Andrew de La Haye (RIPE NCC)

REX – Number Resource EXplainer – Mark Dranse (RIPE NCC)

Session Chair: Raed Al-Fayez, CITC

UAE Experience in IDN – Mohammad Al-Zarooni (.ae Domain Administration)

ICANN IDN Actvities and Experience – Baher Esmat (ICANN)

ICANN DNSSEC – Signing the Root – Mehmet Akcin (ICANN)

Session Chair: Osama Al Dosary, MENOG Chairman

Developing a National Research and Educational Network – Dr. Hesham Bin-Abbas (KACST)

Closing – Osama Al Dosary, MENOG Chairman