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Operations-based financial analysis of FTTH system proposalsStephen Blum
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### Key Components of Internet Security
1. **Confidentiality**: Ensuring that information is accessible only to those authorized to access it.
2. **Integrity**: Protecting information from being altered or tampered with by unauthorized parties.
3. **Availability**: Ensuring that authorized users have reliable access to information and resources when needed.
## Common Internet Security Threats
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### Malware
Malware, or malicious software, is designed to harm, exploit, or otherwise compromise a device, network, or service. Common types of malware include:
- **Viruses**: Programs that attach themselves to legitimate software and replicate, spreading to other programs and files.
- **Worms**: Standalone malware that replicates itself to spread to other computers.
- **Trojan Horses**: Malicious software disguised as legitimate software.
- **Ransomware**: Malware that encrypts a user's files and demands a ransom for the decryption key.
- **Spyware**: Software that secretly monitors and collects user information.
### Phishing
Phishing is a social engineering attack that aims to steal sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details. Attackers often masquerade as trusted entities in email or other communication channels, tricking victims into providing their information.
### Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Attacks
MitM attacks occur when an attacker intercepts and potentially alters communication between two parties without their knowledge. This can lead to the unauthorized acquisition of sensitive information.
### Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
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6. Recognised as priorities in
CPUC resolution
On fast track for CASF
money
Monterey County
1. Greenfield
2. King City
3. Gonzales
Regional Wild Cards
1. Soledad
2. Castroville
3. Chualar
Santa Cruz County
1. Pleasure Point/Twin Lakes
2. Soquel
3. Brookdale
San Benito County
1. Aromas area
2. Airport/Northeast area
3. Cienega Road area
CCBC priority areas
7. Focus on rebooting CASF
Negotiations continue
with incumbents
• AB 1549 – access to Caltrans conduit
• AB 1758 – Assemblyman Mark Stone proposing
raising broadband minimums for CASF eligibility
• Working to add $350 million, expand eligibility
• $150 million for infrastructure grants
• $75 million for public housing broadband
• $100 million for adoption programs
• $15 million for consortia
• $10 million for California Telehealth Network
8. Charter agrees to upgrade
Salinas Valley
Contingent on approval of Time
Warner/Bright House deal
• 109,000 people, ~30,000 homes in
Monterey County have analog video
service but no digital video or broadband
from Charter
• City of Gonzales granted party status in
CPUC review of Charter’s proposed
purchase of Time Warner and Bright
House cable systems in southern
California
• Pushed for digital upgrade
• Monterey County followed three months
later
• Charter, Gonzales, Monterey County
reached agreement for digital upgrade
over three years, if deal is approved
9. Sunesys project has high
potential for development
6 projects already in
pipeline, more planned
10. City of Santa Cruz approved
FTTH with Cruzio
Cruzio responsible for operating
system, paying bonds
SantaCruz
! fiber
15. Open access fiber to King
City, SLO, Hollister & Monterey
Current project shows
feasibility
16. • CCBC's CASF-funded project plays
key role in closing gap.
• Sunesys project will be regional
backbone.
• Infrastructure builds by
incumbents, independents.
• Policy & funding resources for
region.
Monterey Bay region historically
isolated from major Internet
centers
Watsonville-led project is ready
for another 5 year mission, to
boldly go where no broadband
has gone before.
23. Surfnet applied for CASF grant for
FTTH in Santa Cruz mountains
$730,000 grant, $243,00 loan
$1.2 million total with matchSurfnet CASF application – Company financials including all projects 1 February 2013 (Rev 1)
the homeowners and these are attached in Section 15.
Figure 1: Map of Surfnet’s Las Cumbres Fiber Project Location
24. Rankings done by county
and regionally
Posted as a workshop on
Civinomics.com
Community Population Households Housing
units
Anchor
institutions
Area
(sq mi)
Household
Income
Greenfield 16,330 3,460 3,752 14 2.1 $55,591
King City 12,874 3,008 3,218 19 4.0 $49,747
Gonzales 8,187 1,906 1,989 7 1.9 $55,251
Soledad 25,738 3,664 3,876 21 4.6 $43,796
Castroville CDP 6,481 1,470 1,539 7 1.1 $53,154
Aromas CDP & area 3,596 1,242 1,312 3 18.6 $62,446
Chualar CDP 1,190 245 251 1 0.6 $65,771
Pleasure Point CDP 5,924 2,689 3,131 1 2.0 $52,693
Twin Lakes CDP 4,917 2,223 2,741 7 1.2 $51,028
Airport/Northeast 2,768 895 954 2 38.7 $77,175
Soquel CDP 9,644 3,912 4,107 5 4.6 $76,472
Cienega Road area 173 58 59 0 1.5 $64,659
Brookdale CDP 1,991 806 912 3.9 $84,965
99,813 25,578 27,841 87 85.0