Why_bother_with_a_Science_DMZ.pdf (4.57 MB)
Why bother with a Science DMZ?
presentation
posted on 2019-05-15, 04:31 authored by Wallace ChaseSciDMZ are not a new thing anymore in the R&E space with hundreds now deployed
worldwide we ask the question – why? Are they working as expected? Have they lead to
security breaches? Are they white elephants for those who have invested in them? What
can we learn from others that have gone before?
This presentation will cover what a science DMZ is, what it looks like in 2019, how they are
being used around the world and what the impacts to New Zealand science are.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)
Wallace Chase
As Technical Engagement Manager Wallace assists the membership to utilize the full
protentional of REANNZ. To this end Wallace leverages his 15 years of experience in higher
education IT operations and supporting research.
Wallace most recently comes to REANNZ from his role in the US as the CEO of the Carolina
Research and Education Network. Wallace also worked for Clemson University Computing and
Information Technology as Executive Director. Prior to that, Wallace worked for Washington
State University leading the networking team, The George Washington University as a network
engineer and at Lake Superior State University also as a network engineer.
Wallace is active in the broader networking and engineering community, working with Internet2,
the Quilt, Pacific Northwest Gigapop, Pacific Wave, the North American Network Operators
Group as well as on the staff of conferences such as Super Computing (SciNet Network
Research Exhibition team) and INTEROP (Network Operations Center staff). Wallace has been
on several teams funded for multiple National Science Foundation projects in the US, has
served on several NSF funding panels and assists with several experimental networking
research projects.
