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Aspects of the present invention relate to verification of an integrated circuit design. More particularly, aspects of the present invention relate to a constrained random test bench.
During the design of an integrated circuit, a test bench may be used to verify that the design is correct. The test bench may be a simulator that applies stimuli (test vectors) to the inputs of the design and captures responses from the outputs of the design during a simulation. As integrated circuit and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs increase in size and complexity, traditional directed test bench methods to verify the design may be less efficient at finding design errors. A directed test bench generally applies fixed sequences of test vectors to the design under test (DUT) during a simulation. To verify the control path of a DUT, a directed test bench typically is programmed with the exact register access sequence of instructions issued to the DUT via a control command bus.
The register access instruction sequence may vary due to an interrupt routine being started to service an interrupt. Additionally, when multiple functional design units share the same control command bus, the bus traffic may be more complex due to the traffic for various function design units being multiplexed with register access instruction sequences addressed to the DUT. However, generation of all possible test sequences may be a time consuming process when a directed test bench is used. To address some of the shortcomings of a directed test bench, a Constrained Random Test (CRT) test bench may be used. A Constrained Random Test bench architecture may be built on SystemVerilog, a standard language for chip design. SystemVerilog is a unified language for hardware design, specification and verification. SystemVerilog employs register transfer level (RTL) code to describe logic functionality.
What is needed is a constrained random verification methodology focused on the control path of the DUT. What is further needed is an instruction abstraction layer that allows test cases to be created using instructions having a higher level of abstraction. What is also needed is a CRT bench architecture that can randomize valid control oriented test sequences that preserves the validity of the test sequences. What is also needed is a test bench that can randomly insert a noise test sequence and/or an interrupt handling routine into a valid command sequence to test design sensitivity to commands issued outside its address space and/or sensitivity to when an interrupt occurs.
One aspect of the present invention involves a constrained random test bench for verifying an integrated circuit design. The test bench includes an instruction streamer configured to hold an instruction sequence for verifying a particular mode of operation of an integrated circuit. The test bench further includes a priority scheduler in communication with the instruction streamer. The priority scheduler is operable to issue the instruction sequence one instruction at a time. The test bench finally includes an instruction translator in communication with the priority scheduler. The instruction translator is configured to receive the issued instruction and apply it to the integrated circuit design.
Another aspect of the present invention involves a method for performing a constrained random test to verify a chip design. The method involves receiving an indication of a test to be executed and constructing a plurality of instruction sequences to implement the test. The method further involves executing a first instruction from a first instruction sequence, determining that a second instruction sequence awaiting execution has a higher priority than the first instruction sequence and executing the second instruction sequence after the first instruction completes.
Yet another aspect of the present invention involves a method for performing a constrained random test to verify a chip design. The method involves receiving an indication of a test to be executed and constructing a plurality of instruction sequences. Each instruction sequence includes one or more instructions. The method further involves issuing each instruction sequence to a corresponding instruction queue and executing a first instruction from a first instruction queue. The method finally involves determining that a second instruction queue having a higher priority that the first instruction queue has a second instruction sequence awaiting execution and executing the second instruction sequence after the first instruction completes.
During the design of an integrated circuit or ASIC, a CRT test bench 100, as depicted in
The test bench 100 may include a test case generator 102 (TCG), a test manager 104 (TM), a control bus master bus functional model (BFM) module 106 and a control bus slave BFM module 107. The control bus master BFM module 106 applies stimuli to the inputs of the design 108 and the control bus slave BFM module 107 during a register write operation. The control bus master BFM module 106 captures responses from the outputs of the design 108 and the control bus slave BFM module 107 during a register read operation. In one embodiment, the control command bus 112 may include an address bus, a data bus and a read/write control signal. Typically, the control bus master BFM module 106 drives the address bus and the read/write control signal. The data bus typically is driven by the control bus master BFM module 106 during a write operation or by the control bus slave BFM module 107 during a read operation.
An exemplary embodiment may include an instruction abstraction layer 110 (IAL). The IAL 110 allows generation of test cases using macro instructions rather than using lower level instructions based on a low level hardware description language (HDL) such as register transfer level (RTL). The IAL typically sends one instruction at a time to the control bus master BFM module 106. Each instruction may include an address value, a data value, and a read/write control signal value. For example, the control bus master BFM module may be instructed to write a data value of 1234 to a register (of the design) at an address location 104. The control bus master BFM module then drives the address bus with an address value of 104, drives the data bus with a data value of 1234 and asserts a logic one (or logic zero if the control line is active low) on the read/write control to indicate a write operation is being performed.
The CRT test bench architecture for a control oriented design may be complex. Generally, in a control oriented design, a particular functional mode of operation of the design to be tested, e.g., a data transform on a block of data, may require initialization of various internal registers. This may require that the test bench apply a sequence of commands to the design to program the internal control registers of the design for the functional mode of operation being tested. Then, while the design processes data, it may be desirable for the test bench to issue commands not addressed to the design's address space to simulate another device sharing the command bus. Additionally, the test bench may have to monitor an internal register of the design to determine when the test completes. This may involve the test bench performing a polling operation by repeatedly reading a status bit in one of the design's internal registers until the bit is set. The test bench may also have to apply a sequence of commands to the design to simulate an interrupt handling routine. Furthermore, upon completion of a test, the test bench typically reads one or more internal registers of the design to verify that the design passed or failed the test.
Thus, a test case for a control oriented design typically involves sending a program sequence of instructions to initialize the design and instruct it to perform a selected operation. A program instruction sequence may include certain instructions that generally have to appear in a specific order (i.e., order dependent instructions) and/or instructions that may appear in a random order (i.e., non-order dependent instructions). It may also be desirable to randomly insert an interrupt service instruction sequence into the program instruction sequence. It may be further desirable to send noise instructions at random times to simulate the presence of another device sharing the control bus with the design during the simulation. Generating all possible test case variations for a constrained random test may become a daunting task.
During verification of a control oriented chip design, a control bus interface of the design typically is verified to determine that a proper bus protocol is followed. Because the control command bus 112 may be shared (e.g., the control command bus may be connected to other integrated circuits), the design is typically tested from a system perspective. This may involve verifying that the design responds to constrained random program instruction sequences appropriately. As discussed in more detail below, the constrained random program instruction sequence typically is a sequence of one or more macro instructions (MIs). Certain MIs of the sequence may be order sensitive while other MIs may not be order sensitive. Further, one or more MIs may include data values that may take on a range of valid values. Additionally, an interrupt handling sequence of instructions may be randomly inserted into a program instruction sequence to simulate the random occurrence of an interrupt. Finally, noise type instructions may be randomly applied to test a design's sensitivity to instructions that should be ignored by the design.
Verifying proper control path operation using a constrained random test bench presents several challenges including: 1) randomizing a valid instruction sequence such that the order of certain order dependent instructions are maintained while non-order dependent instructions are randomized; 2) randomly injecting noise type instructions that lie outside of the address space of the design; 3) injecting an interrupt service routine (ISR) instruction sequence after a random delay to simulate an interrupt handler; 4) injecting a specific instruction sequence at a specific time; 5) managing a polling instruction; 6) prioritizing instruction sequences; and 7) collecting functional coverage for a complex instruction sequence (e.g., verifying a cyclic redundancy check value for an entire memory of the chip design).
The test bench 100 (or verification platform) generally verifies that a DUT 108 responds properly to an instruction sequence that may be randomized within specified constraint boundaries. This may be referred to as constrained random verification of the design control path. One particular embodiment may be based on a VMM and RAL-based SystemVerilog test bench. It is to be appreciated that the invention may be utilized with other test benches. Use of the SystemVerilog test bench is by way of illustration and not limitation.
The IAL 110 generally allows lower level control instructions to be abstracted to higher level MIs and provides more flexibility in creating and executing constrained random tests. In a control oriented design, the design typically expects certain order dependent instructions in a test sequence to be applied in a specific order while being insensitive to the ordering of other instructions within the test sequence. That is, a constrained random test sequence generally has to initialize the design being simulated by applying the proper sequence of control instructions to program a desired function such as a data transform function. The control instructions generally are applied on the control command bus before the desired function (e.g., transfer a block of data and perform a specified transformation on the block of data) is performed by the DUT 108.
The IAL 110 typically automates the process of generating a valid random program instruction sequence. The IAL 110 may also allow other instruction sequences to be injected onto the control command bus during execution of a program instruction sequence. For example, the IAL 110 may inject an interrupt service instruction sequence on the control command bus while a program instruction sequence is being sent to the design to simulate handling an interrupt asynchronously, i.e., after a random time delay from when the interrupt is asserted. The IAL 110 may also inject background noise instructions on the control command bus that lie outside of the address space of the design to test a design's sensitivity to command instructions that should be ignored by the design.
In one exemplary embodiment, the IAL 110 may include a noise instruction streamer 120, a program instruction streamer 122, an interrupt service instruction streamer 124, a custom instruction streamer 126, a priority scheduler 128 and an instruction translator 130, as depicted in
The test case generator 102 may be used to generate test cases. A test case may include a valid program instruction sequence for verifying a particular instance of a mode of operation of the DUT 108. The test case may further include one or more constraints that indicate valid ranges of data values such as source and destination addresses and/or order dependencies within the sequence of instructions that should be maintained, etc. The test case may further include an interrupt service routine instruction sequence to service an interrupt and may further indicate that noise instructions should be sent to the design when the control command bus 112 is idle.
Test cases may be passed to the test manager 104 for execution. The test manager 104 typically analyzes a test case to select the instruction streamers necessary to execute the test case. The test manager 104 instructs the appropriate instruction streamers 120,122,124, 126 to issue the appropriate instruction streams. In response, each selected instruction streamers 120,122,124,126 generally queue up the appropriate instruction stream based on the test case executed. Each instruction stream may be queued within the particular streamer or alternatively may be queued within the priority scheduler 128. It should be noted that the queuing of certain instruction streams, such as an interrupt service instruction stream may occur in response to certain events such as an interrupt. The test manager may also halt an instruction streamer at any time during execution of a test case depending upon the specific requirements of the test case.
A test case may include a program instruction sequence of macro instructions (MIs) to be applied to the design 108 by the program instruction streamer 122.
Because a particular test case may specify that a first MI should be applied to the design, that several intermediate MIs may be applied to the design in a random order and that a final MI should then be applied to the design, generating the various possible program instruction sequences by hand may be a time consuming process and may result in incomplete test coverage, i.e., the test cases do not cover all variations of the instructions and/or data values. An exemplary embodiment employs a program instruction streamer to automatically generate valid constrained random test sequences based on a constraint.
Each instruction streamer 120,122,124, 126 of the IAL 110 may have a specified priority such that a higher priority instruction streamer is serviced by the priority scheduler 128 before a lower priority instruction streamer is serviced. In one embodiment, the instruction streamers may be prioritized from highest to lowest priority as follows: custom instruction streamer 126, interrupt service instruction streamer 124, program instruction streamer 122 and noise instruction streamer 120. Other embodiments may prioritize the instruction streamers differently and may also allow the priority of the instruction streamers to change on a test case by test case basis.
Each instruction steamer may translate each MI of the instruction sequence into one or more atomic instructions (AIs) to form an AI instruction sequence. In one exemplary embodiment, each MI represents a fixed sequence of one or more AI instructions. An AI generally is the smallest instruction unit (primitive) managed by the program scheduler. Thus, an AI, when translated by the instruction translator 130, typically is a set of low level instructions (e.g., register level read/write commands) that are applied to the DUT 108 in order without interruption. The priority scheduler 128 generally allows each AI to complete before transferring another AI to the instruction translator for translation and low level execution by the control bus master BFM module 106.
The priority scheduler 128 typically issues an atomic instruction from the highest priority instruction streamer having an instruction queued up and awaiting execution to the instruction translator 130. The priority scheduler 128 then waits for the instruction translator 130 to finish executing the atomic instruction. The priority scheduler 128 then issues an atomic instruction from the highest priority instruction streamer having an atomic instruction awaiting execution. For example, the interrupt service instruction streamer 124 may queue up an interrupt service routine sequence of atomic instructions while a program sequence of atomic instructions from the program instruction streamer 122 is being executed (i.e., partially executed) and the noise instruction streamer 120 may have a sequence of atomic instructions queued up for execution. When the interrupt service instruction streamer priority is higher than the program instruction streamer priority which in turn is higher than the noise instruction streamer priority, the priority scheduler issues the first interrupt service instruction streamer atomic instruction to the instruction translator when the current AI from the program sequence completes execution. The priority scheduler continues to issue atomic instructions from the interrupt service instruction streamer queue until the interrupt service instruction streamer queue is empty. Then, the priority scheduler issues the remaining atomic instructions from the program instruction streamer queue until that queue is empty. Finally, the priority scheduler issues the atomic instructions from the noise instruction streamer queue.
During idle control command bus periods 164,170, the priority scheduler 128 typically issues any atomic instructions queued up in the noise instruction streamer queue. In one exemplary embodiment, the noise instruction streamer 120 queues noise instructions at random times. Thus, atomic noise instructions can be applied on the control command bus at random times as determined by when the noise instruction streamer 120 queues up a noise instruction. The noise instructions are typically executed during the idle periods on the control command bus that occur during test execution such as periods 164,170 of test cases 1 and 2.
For example, a test case may specify that the program instruction streamer send a first program sequence to initialize the device and instruct it to perform a certain operation. While the device performs the specified operation, the noise instruction streamer can randomly queue up noise commands that are issued during control command bus idle periods by the priority scheduler. Such operation is useful in simulating control command bus activity directed to another device sharing the control command bus. This mode enables the test bench to test the DUT's sensitivity to commands issued to another device (at a different address space) that should be ignored. When the device has finished the requested operation, the program instruction streamer is instructed to send a second instruction sequence to read device status registers to verify success or failure of the specified operation.
The instruction translator translates individual high level atomic instructions into low level register read/write commands executed by the register abstraction layer (RAL). The RAL may be a SystemVerilog application package. Such a package may be used to automate the creation of a high-level abstraction layer for memory-mapped registers and memories in a device. The RAL may also maintain a mirror copy of the device's register values that is updated when a register read/write access of the device is performed.
In one embodiment, the RAL includes generic read and write functions that are invoked to send register access instructions to the control bus master BFM module. When a write type AI is issued from the IAL, the write function is invoked. In addition to performing a register write to the DUT, the corresponding register in the mirror is updated with the write data value. When a read type AI is issued to the RAL from the IAL, the DUT or the slave BFM provides the data value to the master BFM module. The generic read function is then invoked to compare the value read with an expected register value stored in the mirror. At the end of a test case simulation, if all the expected values match the values read, the test bench indicates that the DUT passed the test case. When a value read does not match the expected value from the mirror, the test bench reports a DUT failure.
The interrupt service instruction streamer 124 may be programmed to queue up an ISR instruction sequence 180 after a random delay 182 from when an interrupt 184 occurs during execution of a program instruction sequence 186, as depicted in
In one embodiment, the program instruction streamer 122 may include a queue that is used to create a randomized program instruction sequence for the test case selected by the test generator. The program instruction sequence 190, as depicted in
The test manager generally keeps track of synchronization events that occur during execution of a test case. That is, the test manager generally knows when the design has performed a requested operation so that the program instruction streamer can be instructed to queue up the program instruction stream necessary to read the internal registers of the DUT to verify whether or not the DUT successfully performed the requested operation.
The noise instruction streamer may be employed to queue up random noise instructions at random times during a DUT simulation as depicted in
One exemplary embodiment may employ a custom instruction streamer that is assigned the highest priority by the priority scheduler. This provides the capability to queue up a custom instruction sequence 210 of one or more instructions that are immediately issued by the priority scheduler upon completion of the current instruction MI B, of a regular program instruction sequence 212, being executed by the priority scheduler during a design simulation as depicted by
In one exemplary embodiment, the streamers may be connected to the priority scheduler via input channels. The priority scheduler may select one of the input channels based on the priority order established for the streamers and transfer one instruction from the selected channel to the instruction translator via an output channel. In one particular embodiment, input channel 0 may have the highest priority, input channel 1 the second highest priority, input channel 2 the third highest priority and input channel 3 may have the lowest priority. In other embodiments, channel priority may be based on a round robin or time domain multiplex type priority algorithm.
When input channel 0 is assigned the highest priority, an instruction sequence queued and waiting on input channel 0 results in the priority scheduler immediately transferring an instruction from channel 0 to the instruction translator, regardless of which other input channels have an instruction sequence queued up awaiting execution. After all the instructions awaiting execution from input channel 0 have been executed, the priority scheduler checks input channel 1 (having the second highest priority) for a pending instructions. If channel 1 has pending instructions, the instructions are transferred, one instruction at a time by the priority scheduler, to the instruction translator for execution. If no instructions are pending on input channels 0 and 1, the priority scheduler checks to see if input channel 2 (having the third highest priority) has pending instructions and transfers any pending instructions for input channel 2 to the instruction translator for execution, one instruction at a time. Finally, input channel 3 (having the lowest priority) is checked by the priority scheduler for any pending instructions awaiting execution. These instructions are transferred, one instruction at a time, by the priority scheduler to the instruction translator when no other input channel queue has pending instructions.
For example, the instruction translator may be executing an instruction sequence from input channel 2. Input channel 0 and input channel 1 may then queue up pending instruction sequences. The priority scheduler waits for the current instruction from input channel 2 to finish executing, then immediately switches to input channel 0, transfers instructions, one at a time to the instruction translator until the queue for the input channel 0 is empty, then, switches to input channel 1 and transfers instructions, one at a time to the instruction translator until the channel 1 queue is empty, and then switches back to input channel 2 to continue transferring instructions, one at a time, to the instruction translator from the channel 2 queue until it is empty. Other embodiments may employ a priority scheduler with more or fewer input channels.
The architecture of the priority scheduler allows the IAL to mimic a variety of control bus activities. For example, while the priority scheduler may be transferring a program instruction streamer sequence of instructions to the instruction translator for execution, should an interrupt occur, the priority scheduler may automatically switch to the interrupt service instruction streamer input channel causing the instruction translator to execute the ISR instruction stream in the middle of the program instruction sequence. Once the interrupt service instruction stream has been executed, the priority scheduler may switch back to the program instruction streamer and continue execution of the program instruction stream from the point at which it was interrupted, simulating the behavior of an asynchronous interrupt handler.
For example, the macro instruction B (MI B) may be a polling instruction, which typically consists of hundreds of atomic register read instructions (RD1 to RDn). The macro instructions A, C, D and E may be simple register read or write instructions (that is, each of these MIs has a one-to-one correspondence with a corresponding AI). Once the MIs have been translated into one or more corresponding AIs, the program instruction streamer may queue the entire AI sequence for execution by the priority scheduler. In one embodiment, the AI sequence may be stored in a queue that is monitored by the priority scheduler. The priority scheduler transfers each AI, one at a time, to the instruction translator for lower level execution. The instruction translator generally completes execution of the AI before the priority scheduler selects another AI and transfers it to the instruction translator for execution.
As depicted in
Although the present invention has been described with respect to particular embodiments and methods of operation, it should be understood that changes to the described embodiments and/or methods may be made and yet still embraced by alternative embodiments of the invention. For example, certain embodiments may utilize a variety of instruction streamers that operate in conjunction with a priority scheduler and instruction translator. Other embodiments may combine operations or omit certain operations to the methods and processes disclosed herein. Accordingly, the proper scope of the present invention is defined by the claims herein.
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Fertilizer is sent from plants and ports via rail and road and then stored in about 5,000 warehouses. Just the number of trucks used to move material from rake points to warehouses? 6,90,000. Its widespread operations and multiple variables created major challenges.
Because a majority of IFFCO's data sources were in rural India, information moved through the system slowly, which resulted in delayed decisions. Another challenge was entering data of what was produced and dispatched from every plant, every day. The cooperative also needed to monitor inventory at each of its warehouses. "The release of government subsidies in thousands of crores is linked to this data," says S.C. Mittal, senior executive director management services and IT, IFFCO. "Many ERP systems were evaluated but none of them met our requirements."
That's when the cooperative decided to develop its own comprehensive enterprisewide Web-based system called eVIKAS. The cooperative's ERP has modules for master data, inventory, sales and remittances, H&T and storage, port operations, farmer service centers and promotional activities.
As he pushed the project through its final phases, Mittal met with multiple challenges, one of them being educating users. "The field-force is not computer literate," he says. "And since field officers are located in remote locations providing them with support was also a major challenge." Training programs and identifying computer-savvy area account officers who were trained in resolving hardware and software-related issues went a long way in breaking these challenges.
Today, the Rs 15-crore project has enabled faster decision-making, which allows salespeople to generate more revenue. From 2006 to 2008, IFFCO's turnover tripled but it added on only 18 marketing people. eVIKAS has also created greater visibility. "The lead time for depositing remittances reduced from seven to three days resulting in huge interest savings," says Mittal. "This initiative simplifies the ever-increasing complexities of IFFCO's business processes due to its geographical spread."
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Government officials from the British Virgin Islands recently praised the work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for its positive impact on the youth on the islands at a recent weekend celebration for Adventist Youth, and the Pathfinder and Adventurer clubs from across St. Croix, St. John, St. Thomas and Virgin Gorda.
The celebration took place at the Sports Complex in Tortula, May 27-29, 2016. The event marked the 40th year anniversary of its Pathfinder ministry.
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Chaplain of the School of Art and Communication in Montemorelos University Agustín Andrade prays with students during the day of prayer in schools and universities on March 9, 2016, across Inter-America. Students gathered in Montemorelos in the early morning and early evening for prayer sessions. Image by Roberth Cruz/IAD
Delegates from the Inter-American Division to this year's Global Adventist Internet Network Conference held at General Conference Headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, Feb. 24-27, 2016. Inter-America's delegation was the largest group with nearly 50 communicators and technologist attending the annual convention. Image by Robert Valencia/IAD.
Seventh-day Adventists take a moment with open palms before prayer during a Sabbath School Congress focused on the "Lord Transform Me" initiative at El Paraiso Adventist Church, in Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 16, 2016. IAD's Lord Transform Me initiative seeks to empower church members to daily seek a transformation through God's Holy Spirit, engaging them in spiritually-led activities and in active service at church and in the community. Image by East Venezuela Union/Facebook.
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JGBs opened steady to moderately weaker on the back of acontinued rise in U.S. Treasury yields on Tuesday, but then20-year JGB prices turned firmer, sending its yield down 0.5 basis point to 1.495 percent, as onelife insurer bought in that zone in relatively thin trading.
Other investors were seen largely sidelined on caution aheadof the results of this session's monthly 2.4 trillion yen($24.35 billion) 10-year JGB auction.
The Ministry of Finance set the coupon on the new issue at0.6 percent, the lowest level since May 1. The ministry couldnot re-open the current issue with its 0.8 percent coupon, asthe difference between its coupon rate and the benchmark 10-yearJGB yield has widened over 0.15 basis point.
The 10-year yield was last up 0.5 basis pointat 0.605 percent.
Many regional banks are likely to buy the new 10-year noteson expectations that the Bank of Japan will purchase them in thesecondary market under its massive JGB-buying programme, marketparticipants said.
One money manager at a regional bank told IFR this morningthat this session's 10-year auction was likely to proceedsmoothly, led by dealers. Domestic money managers have shruggedoff stronger-than-expected domestic corporate earnings reportspublished recently. Bullish investors have been buying 10-yearJGBs as they believe the government's new economic stimulussteps will be insufficient to sustain Japan's economy after theconsumption tax increase in April next year.
The yield on the current 5-year JGBs was indicated at 0.195percent to 0.20 percent, compared with 0.195percent on Tuesday.
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Lead December JGB futures moved in a narrow144.90-144.95 range in the morning session before finishing down0.04 at 144.93.
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Ransomware is the latest example of the increasingly sophisticated and damaging inventions of hackers. Individuals and organizations of all sizes are finding that their data has been locked down or encrypted until a ransom is paid. One program, CryptoLocker, infected more than 300,000 computers before the FBI and international law enforcement agencies disabled it. A few days later, Cryptowall showed up to take its place. Companies paid $1.3 billion last year in insurance to help offset the costs of combatting data attacks like these.
Other examples include highly customized malware, advanced persistent threats and large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Security professionals must remain ever vigilant to both known and new threats on the rise. However, with proper visibility into the extended network and robust intelligence, an attack can often be detected and stopped before it causes significant damage. By using the network to gain intelligence, cyber defenders can gain greater visibility of adversary actions and quickly shut them down.
Since an attack can be broken down into stages, it is helpful to think of a response to an attack in stages as well: before, during and after. This is standard operating procedure for anyone in the security profession. Let's examine each stage:
Before: Cyber defenders are constantly on the lookout for areas of vulnerability. Historically, security had been all about defense. Today, teams are developing more intelligent methods of halting intruders. With total visibility into their environments - including, but not limited, to physical and virtual hosts, operating systems, applications, services, protocols, users, content and network behavior -defenders can take action before an attack has even begun.
During the attack, impact can be minimized if security staff understands what is happening and how to stop it as quickly as possible. They need to be able to continuously address threats, not just at a single point in time. Tools including content inspection, behavior anomaly detection, context awareness of users, devices, location information and applications are critical to understanding an attack as it is occurring. Security teams need to discover where, what and how users are connected to applications and resources.
After the attack, cyber defenders must understand the nature of the attack and how to minimize any damage that may have occurred. Advanced forensics and assessment tools help security teams learn from attacks. Where did the attacker come from? How did they find a vulnerability in the network? Could anything have been done to prevent the breach? More important, retrospective security allows for an infrastructure that can continuously gather and analyze data to create security intelligence. Compromises that would have gone undetected for weeks or months can instead be identified, scoped, contained and remediated in real time or close to it.
The two most important aspects of a defensive strategy, then, are understanding and intelligence. Cybersecurity teams are constantly trying to learn more about who their enemies are, why they are attacking and how. This is where the extended network provides unexpected value: delivering a depth of intelligence that cannot be attained anywhere else in the computing environment. Much like in counterterrorism, intelligence is key to stopping attacks before they happen.
Virtual security, as is sometimes the case in real-world warfare, is often disproportionate to available resources. Relatively small adversaries with limited means can inflict disproportionate damage on larger adversaries. In these unbalanced situations, intelligence is one of the most important assets for addressing threats. But intelligence alone is of little benefit without an approach that optimizes the organizational and operational use of intelligence.
Security teams can correlate identity and context, using network analysis techniques that enable the collection of IP network traffic as it enters or exits an interface, and then add to that threat intelligence and analytics capabilities.
This allows security teams to combine what they learn from multiple sources of information to help identify and stop threats. Sources include what they know from the Web, what they know that's happening in the network and a growing amount of collaborative intelligence gleaned from exchange with public and private entities.
Cryptowall will eventually be defeated, but other ransomware programs and as-yet-unknown attacks will rise to threaten critical data. Effective cybersecurity requires an understanding of what assets need to be protected and an alignment of organizational priorities and capabilities. Essentially, a framework of this type enables security staff to think like malicious actors and therefore do a better job of securing their environments. The security team's own threat intelligence practice, uniting commercial threat information with native analysis of user behavior, will detect, defend against and remediate security events more rapidly and effectively than once thought possible.
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The cloud promises new levels of agility and cost-savings for Big Data, data warehousing and analytics. But it's challenging to understand all the options – from IaaS and PaaS to newer services like HaaS (Hadoop as a Service) and BDaaS (Big Data as a Service). In her session at @BigDataExpo at @ThingsExpo, Hannah Smalltree, a director at Cazena, provided an educational overview of emerging "as-a-service" options for Big Data in the cloud. This is critical background for IT and data profession...
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Whether your IoT service is connecting cars, homes, appliances, wearable, cameras or other devices, one question hangs in the balance – how do you actually make money from this service? The ability to turn your IoT service into profit requires the ability to create a monetization strategy that is flexible, scalable and working for you in real-time. It must be a transparent, smoothly implemented strategy that all stakeholders – from customers to the board – will be able to understand and comprehe...
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When people aren't talking about VMs and containers, they're talking about serverless architecture. Serverless is about no maintenance. It means you are not worried about low-level infrastructural and operational details. An event-driven serverless platform is a great use case for IoT. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Animesh Singh, an STSM and Lead for IBM Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, will detail how to build a distributed serverless, polyglot, microservices framework using open source tec...
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Connected devices and the industrial internet are growing exponentially every year with Cisco expecting 50 billion devices to be in operation by 2020. In this period of growth, location-based insights are becoming invaluable to many businesses as they adopt new connected technologies. Knowing when and where these devices connect from is critical for a number of scenarios in supply chain management, disaster management, emergency response, M2M, location marketing and more. In his session at @Th...
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A Note to Parents
Learning when to parent our kids, and when to parent our kids diabetes.
By Tom Karlya
September 2011 — What are we teaching our kids?
Ever ask yourself that question before? Its obvious that we should teach our kids about seatbelts and safety; why they shouldn't smoke; and the hazards of texting while driving. Right? Well, not necessarily.
Ill bet dollars to donuts that in most cases, the kids who text while driving also have parents who do so. My guess is the same when it comes to smoking and wearing seatbelts. The simple truth is that kids follow what their parents do.
But what happens when we deal with our kids and their diabetes? If we do not have it, and many of us dont, how is it that we may serve as an example for our kids? As parents we surely are not short in the advice we have to give, are we?
Dont eat that. Your number should be lower, better, and more in range. Why didnt you check your blood sugar? Its time to test. You should not have eaten that. Why do I have to remember your supplies? Youll be sorry if you do not test. Make sure you have [insert item from list here]. Any of this sound familiar?
And sometimes we say it with such empathy: Now because you didnt do it when you were told, we have to wait for you. That didnt hurt. No one minded seeing your picture from the hospital on Facebook. Its not my fault that your number is high. Tell him what your number was. Go on. Tell him. Go on. Okay I will. She was 375 because she didnt listen to me.
Every last one of those statements has been said by parents, and there are still many more that I have heard and not listed. Do you see yourself? I saw myself in some of them, if not the exact words said, but the sentiment was felt.
Oh my.
Here is a little exercise I taught myself years ago. Parenting versus parenting a child with diabetes is so different with each family, but try this little sentence the next time you deal with your child on any (I mean any!) issue dealing with their diabetes. Tell yourself right before youre about to speak your first word, None of this is their fault.
If you think you are frustrated, exasperated, angry, mad, sad, sorrowful, pained, tired, fed-up, and ready to scream because of your child and everything they do, remember that all of the things you feel are only magnified exponentially in your child who has diabetes. Here is a newsflash for you: If you dont have it, you have not a clue what it is like. You have a clue what it is like as a parent, but as much as you think about it 24/7/365, you really dont know what its like to have diabetes. You may think about diabetes a lot a real lot but nowhere near as much as our kids do. Not even close. Realize this fact.
So the next time you are about to thrash into your kids event with a diabetes update, set a new example. Why not try asking about their personal time first and let the diabetes update wait ten minutes? I assure you it will be there even if you wait ten minutes and your child will always be aware of this fact. I promise you that our kids would rather tell us about their life as a child before they tell you about their life as a child with diabetes. Remember that always. I know I try to.
I am a Diabetes Dad.
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Many have asked if I ever kept a journal of these Alien/ET related events that have unfolded in my life?
Indeed I have, I wrote it all down in as much detail as I could remember exactly what happened as soon as possible,
What you are about to read is these personal un-edited for the most part journals of mine,
Please keep in mind I am not a writer so please excuse any grammar or spelling mistakes.
A journal of these Alien/ET related events that have unfolded in my life
Imagine this if you will.
You experience strange ET Contact & happenings your entire life.
"They" begin to communicate through telepathy leading you to Cosmic Spiritual Truths regarding howThought Create Reality subject matter.
They begin to reveal themselves in the Physical in Orbs Of Light/Plasma over Lake Erie.
They allow you to film them.
Your footage goes viral gaining worldwide attention.
Your footage lands you on a prime time TV show called UFO Hunters on the History Channel.
On the episode, They decide to test your blood and it is revealed you do not have normal human blood, A very rare blood anomaly/bloodline that the world's best military and civilian doctors are at a loss to explain?
The host of the show Legendary UFO Researcher Bill Birnes goes on to say "I've got a funny feeling that you are being recruited and there is a branch of the government that you're being recruited for - that somehow, some way, you are a hybrid between "ET" and humans. And they are giving you a course of study preparing you to meet your ET higher self.
"Soon After the airing of this show You are indeed contacted by this branch of the government and offered a course of study.
Then you are met by beings claiming to be ET's themselves, and these beings announce themselves as the Anunnaki, which is a term at that point in time you didn't even know the meaning of.
These Anunnaki tell you that you yourself are an Anunnaki incarnated into the Nephilim "Royal"Human/Anunnaki Hybrid Bloodline?
And then this secret branch of the government begins to inform and guide you to information to make sense out of all of this?
Welcome to my world!
Let me tell you a little about myself, I am a musician, filmographer and UFO experiencer. I have been told my footage of the Lake Erie UFO's has created a Billy Meier like buzz!
In my home state of Ohio, I have been cataloging video after video of UFO's over Lake Erie. What makes these different than most sightings is that the phenomena consists almost entirely of 'Pulsating orb's of light' characteristics. Unusual lights seen changing colors, converging, and separating over the lake.
Stories of the unexplained phenomena date back over 150 years to the indigenous tribes. My Lake Eri eUFO footage has been featured on Fox News, Coast to Coast AM, Rense.com, hbccufo.org and in the feature film's "UFO's unplugged with Dan Aykroyd", And David Sereda's latest film From Here To Andromeda which I also co-produced. I've most recently been featured on the History Channel's "UFO's Hunters" show and filmed a pilot for a Alien/UFO based show for Spike TV in 2012 that was never aired for various reasons.I guess the question is how I have all this UFO footage
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