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2024 Data Analysis Findings

Lab Devices with Unexpected Connection Attempts While performing exploratory data analysis on the MISTRAL flow records, the analysis team examined outbound traffic from the lab devices grouped by the source ips, destination subnets, and destination ports to identify a baseline for normal traffic per device.  One source IP in particular stood out for the unexpected […]

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Advisory Board Meeting – June 7, 2024

Slide deck: MISTRAL AB June 2024

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Infrastructure Updates – 2024

In 2024, the project team expanded the monitoring fabric for the MISTRAL project. The hardware infrastructure was expanded from a single sensor node to 20 sensor nodes and dedicated switching hardware for tagging and load balancing scientific network captures.       In support of MISTRAL, OIT is deploying a network monitoring fabric designed to […]

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Advisory Board Meeting – January 22, 2024

Slide Deck: MISTRAL AB-Jan 2024

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