Understanding Cloud Growth Using Domain Names
March 24, 2021 - Cloudfest Agenda
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM (CET)
By Andy Simpson / Verisign
Principal Data Scientist, Senior Director Corporate Strategy and Analytics
As more end users come online each year, Web Pros can help them establish their own online presence. By helping these customers build websites and setup email, Web Pros have an opportunity to use their skills and expertise to help small businesses and other users realize all that being online can do to help them meet their goals. A domain name is an important part of how these users’ audiences will be able to find and interact with them. This talk helps illustrate how the domain name industry has grown to support these customers over the years and explore the role that a domain name has in helping Web Pros attract new customers.
About Andy Simpson / Verisign
As a principal data scientist in the Verisign Corporate Strategy and Analytics organization, Andy Simpson is responsible for studying end-user demand for domain names with a focus on the impact of emerging global markets and how registrants utilize their registered domain names. Andy also supports Verisign’s efforts to evaluate security and stability threats to the Domain Name System (DNS) root zone. Since joining Verisign in 2005, and before moving into broad scale domain name usage analysis, Andy contributed to multiple external-facing platforms that Verisign maintained before transitioning to and helping Verisign develop a Big Data technology stack, which is now the primary architecture for his domain name research efforts. Andy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University.
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Evolving role of domain names in online presence
March 24, 2021 - Cloudfest Agenda
6:30 PM6:50 PM(CET)
By Sameer Thakar / Verisign
Senior Director, Product Management
Today having an online presence is business critical. And the possibilities for how to get online have never been greater. Website builders, social media, and ecommerce marketplaces - to name a few - offer businesses a place to establish themselves, get discovered, and transact. The keynote will address how our industry can adapt to this evolving landscape to help meet the needs of today’s customers by rethinking legacy solutions and the role domain names play. The keynote will also demonstrate how domain names are central to online presence solutions and share domain name search innovations available to use with a variety of online presences.
About Sameer Thakar / Verisign
As senior director of product management at Verisign, Sameer Thakar has 24 years of experience in the high-tech software space with a proven track record of delivering strong growth in enterprise cloud infrastructure, security solutions and artificial intelligence-based domain name search engines.
During Sameer’s tenure at Verisign, since joining in 2003, he has demonstrated success in launching new services as well as enhancing existing product portfolios. He has been instrumental in spearheading product strategies, customer interactions, sales support and complex contract negotiations.
Prior to Verisign, Sameer held various technical and management positions at companies such as Ericsson, Wipro Technologies and CMC Limited (currently Tata Consultancy Services).
Sameer is the listed inventor for several Domain Name System (DNS)-related patents and has extensive work experience in different geographies including the United States, India and Scandinavia.
Sameer has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, a Master of Science degree in software systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India and an undergraduate degree in electronics engineering from the University of Pune, India.
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A New Era of Change for the Domain Name System: More than Just DNS Encryption
March 25, 2021 - Cloudfest Agenda
7:40 PM8:10 PM(CET)
By Burt Kaliski Jr. / Verisign
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
This presentation will describe how to evaluate and address the information protection objectives for the protocol exchanges between DNS components including clients, resolvers and authoritative name servers at various levels within the DNS hierarchy, whether by encryption, alternative techniques or some combination thereof. This is significant because different information protection techniques may provide the best fit at the different parts of the DNS resolution ecosystem based on a balance between cryptographic and operational considerations. DNS encryption also helpsopen up opportunities for new functionality for DNS resolvers operated by enterprises and applications. The presentation will describe two examples of this functionality: authenticated resolution, which adds an enhanced security control point to a DNS resolver, and adaptive resolution, which adds new navigation capability.
About Burt Kaliski Jr. / Verisign
Dr. Burt Kaliski Jr., senior vice president and chief technology officer (CTO), leads Verisign’s long-term research program. Through the program’s innovation initiatives, the CTO organization, explores emerging technologies, assesses their impact on the company’s business, prototypes and evaluates new concepts, and recommends new strategies and solutions. Burt is also responsible for the company’s industry standards engagements, university collaborations and technical community programs.
Prior to joining Verisign in 2011, Burt served as the founding director of the EMC Innovation Network. He joined EMC from RSA Security, where he was vice president of research and chief scientist. Burt started his career at RSA in 1989, where, as the founding scientist of RSA Laboratories, his contributions included the development of the Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), now widely deployed in internet security.
Burt has held appointments as a guest professor at Wuhan University’s College of Computer Science and as a guest professor and member of the international advisory board of Peking University's School of Software and Microelectronics. He has also taught at Stanford University and Rochester Institute of Technology. Burt was program co-chair of Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) 2002, chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) P1363 working group, program chair of CRYPTO ’97, and general chair of CRYPTO ’91. He currently serves on the scientific advisory board of QEDIT, a privacy-enhancing technology provider.
Burt is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society, and a member of Tau Beta Pi.
Burt received a PhD, Master and Bachelor of Science degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where his research focused on cryptography.
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March 24, 2021 - Cloudfest Agenda
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM (CET)
By Andy Simpson / Verisign
Principal Data Scientist, Senior Director Corporate Strategy and Analytics
As more end users come online each year, Web Pros can help them establish their own online presence. By helping these customers build websites and setup email, Web Pros have an opportunity to use their skills and expertise to help small businesses and other users realize all that being online can do to help them meet their goals. A domain name is an important part of how these users’ audiences will be able to find and interact with them. This talk helps illustrate how the domain name industry has grown to support these customers over the years and explore the role that a domain name has in helping Web Pros attract new customers.
About Andy Simpson / Verisign
As a principal data scientist in the Verisign Corporate Strategy and Analytics organization, Andy Simpson is responsible for studying end-user demand for domain names with a focus on the impact of emerging global markets and how registrants utilize their registered domain names. Andy also supports Verisign’s efforts to evaluate security and stability threats to the Domain Name System (DNS) root zone. Since joining Verisign in 2005, and before moving into broad scale domain name usage analysis, Andy contributed to multiple external-facing platforms that Verisign maintained before transitioning to and helping Verisign develop a Big Data technology stack, which is now the primary architecture for his domain name research efforts. Andy earned a Bachelor of Science degree in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University.
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Evolving role of domain names in online presence
March 24, 2021 - Cloudfest Agenda
6:30 PM6:50 PM(CET)
By Sameer Thakar / Verisign
Senior Director, Product Management
Today having an online presence is business critical. And the possibilities for how to get online have never been greater. Website builders, social media, and ecommerce marketplaces - to name a few - offer businesses a place to establish themselves, get discovered, and transact. The keynote will address how our industry can adapt to this evolving landscape to help meet the needs of today’s customers by rethinking legacy solutions and the role domain names play. The keynote will also demonstrate how domain names are central to online presence solutions and share domain name search innovations available to use with a variety of online presences.
About Sameer Thakar / Verisign
As senior director of product management at Verisign, Sameer Thakar has 24 years of experience in the high-tech software space with a proven track record of delivering strong growth in enterprise cloud infrastructure, security solutions and artificial intelligence-based domain name search engines.
During Sameer’s tenure at Verisign, since joining in 2003, he has demonstrated success in launching new services as well as enhancing existing product portfolios. He has been instrumental in spearheading product strategies, customer interactions, sales support and complex contract negotiations.
Prior to Verisign, Sameer held various technical and management positions at companies such as Ericsson, Wipro Technologies and CMC Limited (currently Tata Consultancy Services).
Sameer is the listed inventor for several Domain Name System (DNS)-related patents and has extensive work experience in different geographies including the United States, India and Scandinavia.
Sameer has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, a Master of Science degree in software systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India and an undergraduate degree in electronics engineering from the University of Pune, India.
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A New Era of Change for the Domain Name System: More than Just DNS Encryption
March 25, 2021 - Cloudfest Agenda
7:40 PM8:10 PM(CET)
By Burt Kaliski Jr. / Verisign
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
This presentation will describe how to evaluate and address the information protection objectives for the protocol exchanges between DNS components including clients, resolvers and authoritative name servers at various levels within the DNS hierarchy, whether by encryption, alternative techniques or some combination thereof. This is significant because different information protection techniques may provide the best fit at the different parts of the DNS resolution ecosystem based on a balance between cryptographic and operational considerations. DNS encryption also helpsopen up opportunities for new functionality for DNS resolvers operated by enterprises and applications. The presentation will describe two examples of this functionality: authenticated resolution, which adds an enhanced security control point to a DNS resolver, and adaptive resolution, which adds new navigation capability.
About Burt Kaliski Jr. / Verisign
Dr. Burt Kaliski Jr., senior vice president and chief technology officer (CTO), leads Verisign’s long-term research program. Through the program’s innovation initiatives, the CTO organization, explores emerging technologies, assesses their impact on the company’s business, prototypes and evaluates new concepts, and recommends new strategies and solutions. Burt is also responsible for the company’s industry standards engagements, university collaborations and technical community programs.
Prior to joining Verisign in 2011, Burt served as the founding director of the EMC Innovation Network. He joined EMC from RSA Security, where he was vice president of research and chief scientist. Burt started his career at RSA in 1989, where, as the founding scientist of RSA Laboratories, his contributions included the development of the Public-Key Cryptography Standards (PKCS), now widely deployed in internet security.
Burt has held appointments as a guest professor at Wuhan University’s College of Computer Science and as a guest professor and member of the international advisory board of Peking University's School of Software and Microelectronics. He has also taught at Stanford University and Rochester Institute of Technology. Burt was program co-chair of Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) 2002, chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) P1363 working group, program chair of CRYPTO ’97, and general chair of CRYPTO ’91. He currently serves on the scientific advisory board of QEDIT, a privacy-enhancing technology provider.
Burt is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society, and a member of Tau Beta Pi.
Burt received a PhD, Master and Bachelor of Science degrees in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where his research focused on cryptography.
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