This week Ashton and Christian kick off the new year by discussing plans to launch the first major cybersecurity research project on the development sandbox: mapping the internet with traceroute, distributed Nmap, and Hadoop. We discuss strategies and design challenges that will be present early on in development and potential solutions that may be employed. Furthermore, we tie back the project to the latest developments in the North Korea cyber fiasco with Sony Corporation. Cyber Frontiers is all about Exploring Cyber security, Big Data, and the Technologies Shaping the Future Through an Academic Perspective!   Christian Johnson, a student at the