An upcoming meeting of presidential advisers promises an update on the importance of software-defined networking to national security and emergency preparedness as pressure builds for the administration to support coordinated investment in the technology. Read More
Topic: Software Defined Network (SDN)
Software Defined Networking for Army’s Tactical Network: Promises, Challenges, and an Architectural Approach

Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) together promise to revolutionize the networking with unprecedented improvements in the speed of introduction of new services, programmability and reconfigurability, resource efficiency, and security posture. While early successes of these concepts have been in database applications, Read More
Cybersecurity for Energy Systems

Cybersecurity solutions for critical energy infrastructure are imperative and they must be carefully engineered to develop reliable systems. Cybersecurity for the modernized power grid is bringing together two different communities: Information technology (IT) and Operational technology (OT). The IT and OT environments differ in important ways but each has Read More
Tim Watkins
Tim Watkins is a Lead Application Engineer for Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc. in Pullman, Washington. He retired in 2013 as a decorated Marine Corps Officer and immediately began working for SEL. He currently works in the SEL’s Secure Engineering branch of Research and Development. Tim has a M.S.A in International Leadership from Central Read More
Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN): Security Implications and Design Solutions

Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is transforming Wide Area Networks (WANs) by providing a highly available Secure WAN Transport combined with Direct Internet Access in the branches. With SD-WAN, Enterprises can mix WAN service offerings from multiple providers (MPLS, Internet, Carrier Ethernet, 3G/4G, ...) to optimize their bandwidth costs and dynamically Read More
Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN): Security Implications and Design Solutions

Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is transforming Wide Area Networks (WANs) by providing a highly available Secure WAN Transport combined with Direct Internet Access in the branches. With SD-WAN, Enterprises can mix WAN service offerings from multiple providers (MPLS, Internet, Carrier Ethernet, 3G/4G, etc.) to optimize their bandwidth costs and dynamically Read More