The CAIDA annual report summarizes CAIDA’s activities for 2024 in the areas of research, infrastructure, data collection and analysis. The executive summary is excerpted below:

In 2024 CAIDA continued to design, prototype, evaluate and implement a new generation of measurement and research  infrastructure for the Internet, which supports collection, curation, archiving, and expanded sharing of data and tools essential for understanding and strengthening the security, stability, and resilience of the Internet infrastructure.

Our efforts focused  on five key infrastructure components: (1) Highly distributed network measurement and data acquisition infrastructure capable of capturing several types of data relevant to security research, as well as hosting new vetted experiments; (2) Data management infrastructure supporting data usability, curation, discovery and sharing; (3) Data analytics platforms that provide interactive access to strategic derived datasets that reveal vulnerabilities, risks, and crucial insights for strengthening resilience and mitigating threats to Internet infrastructure;  and (4) Infrastructure for outreach to engage a range of stakeholders in infrastructure development, use, evaluation and evolution, and in the process scaling up STEM workforce training.

This annual report highlights our work on these key components — describing what we built, improved, and learned in 2024.  We include several metrics that reflect the scale and utility of our activities: the volume and diversity of data collected, the number of users and collaborators we support, the external publications based on CAIDA datasets, and our own research contributions. Together, these indicators help show where our infrastructure is being used, and where it is making a meaningful difference.

For the full 2024 annual report, see https://www.caida.org/about/annualreports/2024/

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