The Internet has not been designed for high availability in the face of malicious actions by adversaries. Recent patches improving security and availability are constrained by the current Internet architecture, business, and legal aspects.

To address these issues, we propose SCION, a next-generation Internet architecture that is secure, available, offers privacy and considers economic and policy issues at the design stage.

SCION is in production use today, offered by several network providers. Exciting use cases and industries are using SCION today, and we are exploring new applications that can benefit from highly available and secure communication. In this talk, we will also provide an IETF update on the progress of SCION specification.

About the speaker

Prof. Dr. Adrian Perrig

Professor at Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich

Adrian Perrig is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where he leads the network security group. He is also a co-founder of and board member at Anapaya Systems, and an advisor to Mysten Labs. He is a recipient of the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award, and is an ACM and IEEE Fellow. Adrian’s research revolves around building secure systems. In particular, his group is working on the SCION next-generation Internet architecture.
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