Short Take – Flowspec and BCP38
In this Short Take, Russ discusses a couple tools we have in the network for DDoS mitigations and explores some of the reasons they may not be as pervasively used as we would like.
Russ White
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The Week in Internet News: Tech Giants’ ‘Ethical AI’ Efforts Scrutinized
Building nice AIs: Efforts by large tech vendors to think about ways to design “ethical Artificial Intelligence” systems have hit some speedbumps along the way, says Insurance Journal. Google abandoned its newly formed ethical AI council after employee complaints about its membership. Some critics say efforts to create ethical AI teams are attempts by companies to avoid regulations.
No smoking or bikinis: Business Insider India has a look at the efforts of the Chinese government to police Internet and social media content, with smoking, excessive tattoos, and in some cases, bikinis prohibited. At Inke, one of China’s largest livestreaming companies, a group of about 1,200 moderators attempt to keep up with the government’s rules, the story says.
Fake news arms race: Facebook has announced a new round of efforts to fight fake news with updates to updates to News Feed, Messenger, and Instagram, Fortune reports. The social media giant is expanding its fact-checking capabilities, and it is trying to limit the reach of groups that repeatedly spread misinformation. Facebook also says it’s getting better at identifying click-bait.
Comments gone wild: YouTube shut down comments on the livestream of a U.S. Congress hearing on white nationalism after the comments section Continue reading
The High-Performance Network (Cloud Next ’19) – YouTube
Presentation on Google's internal network from the show floor
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Privacy First for Security Companies
Privacy has become a major issue around the world. Hopeful presidential candidates, such as Elizabeth Warren, have proposed privacy legislation and European countries are beginning to issue their first judgements based on GDPR violations. Given this evolving environment, the Internet Society participated in a panel on data privacy at the ISC-West conference on 11 April 2019.
The conference was sponsored by ADT, one of the largest home security companies and an Internet Society organizational member. The panel included Frank Cona from ADT, Dylan Gilbert from Public Knowledge, Brandon Board from Resideo, and Kenneth Olmstead from the Internet Society.
The discussion focused on two main themes. The first was that in the data-driven economy, user agency is more important than ever. Users must be able to ask companies what data they have about them and be able to update or delete that data. The second was that companies must put privacy at the forefront of their business practices. Privacy cannot be an afterthought, but must be the starting point.
There was not consensus among panelists regarding whether there will be Federal privacy legislation at some point, but it was clear that the security industry should do its best to implement privacy Continue reading
Automating 802.1x (Part One)
This is a guest blog post by Albert Siersema, senior network and cloud engineer at Mediacaster.nl. He’s always busy broadening his horizons and helping his customers in (re)designing and automating their infrastructure deployment and management.
We’d like to be able to automate our network deployment and management from a single source of truth, but before we get there from a running (enterprise, campus!) network, we’ll have to take some small steps first.
These posts are not focused on 802.1x, but it serves as a nice use case in which I’ll show you how automation can save time and bring some consistency and uniformity to the network (device) configuration.
Read more ...Our Green Card Journey
We are now Lawful Permanent Residents of the United States - aka Green Card Holders. It took a few years to get to this point. Here’s our timeline, why we did it, what it means for us, and what next.
Timeline
I first moved to the US on an L-1B visa. This is an intra-company transfer visa, that let me move to the US to continue working for Brocade.
- May 2015 - Began work for Brocade, based in New Zealand.
- Jul 2016 - Received L-1B visa, allowing us to move to US.
- Aug 2016 - Moved from New Zealand to US.
- Nov 2016 - Broadcom announces intention to acquire Brocade
- Nov 2016 - Green Card process initiated - Department of Labour certification filed.
- Jul 2017 - PERM filed.
- Oct 2017 - Extreme Network acquired my business unit. I remained employee of Broadcom.
- Nov 2017 - PERM approved.
- Jan 2018 - Received permission to transfer L-1 visa to Extreme Networks.
- Feb 2018 - I-140 and I-485 submitted.
- Sep 2018 - I-140 approved.
- Feb 2019 - I-485 interview scheduled.
- Mar 2019 - I-485 interview held. Lots of questions, confirming details & history, but all straightforward.
- One week later: cards in hand
Total Continue reading
Our Green Card Journey
We are now Lawful Permanent Residents of the United States - aka Green Card Holders. It took a few years to get to this point. Here’s our timeline, why we did it, what it means for us, and what next.
Timeline
I first moved to the US on an L-1B visa. This is an intra-company transfer visa, that let me move to the US to continue working for Brocade.
- May 2015 - Began work for Brocade, based in New Zealand.
- Jul 2016 - Received L-1B visa, allowing us to move to US.
- Aug 2016 - Moved from New Zealand to US.
- Nov 2016 - Broadcom announces intention to acquire Brocade
- Nov 2016 - Green Card process initiated - Department of Labour certification filed.
- Jul 2017 - PERM filed.
- Oct 2017 - Extreme Network acquired my business unit. I remained employee of Broadcom.
- Nov 2017 - PERM approved.
- Jan 2018 - Received permission to transfer L-1 visa to Extreme Networks.
- Feb 2018 - I-140 and I-485 submitted.
- Sep 2018 - I-140 approved.
- Feb 2019 - I-485 interview scheduled.
- Mar 2019 - I-485 interview held. Lots of questions, confirming details & history, but all straightforward.
- One week later: cards in hand
Total Continue reading
Our Green Card Journey
We are now Lawful Permanent Residents of the United States - aka Green Card Holders. It took a few years to get to this point. Here’s our timeline, why we did it, what it means for us, and what next.
Timeline
I first moved to the US on an L-1B visa. This is an intra-company transfer visa, that let me move to the US to continue working for Brocade.
- May 2015 - Began work for Brocade, based in New Zealand.
- Jul 2016 - Received L-1B visa, allowing us to move to US.
- Aug 2016 - Moved from New Zealand to US.
- Nov 2016 - Broadcom announces intention to acquire Brocade
- Nov 2016 - Green Card process initiated - Department of Labour certification filed.
- Jul 2017 - PERM filed.
- Oct 2017 - Extreme Network acquired my business unit. I remained employee of Broadcom.
- Nov 2017 - PERM approved.
- Jan 2018 - Received permission to transfer L-1 visa to Extreme Networks.
- Feb 2018 - I-140 and I-485 submitted.
- Sep 2018 - I-140 approved.
- Feb 2019 - I-485 interview scheduled.
- Mar 2019 - I-485 interview held. Lots of questions, confirming details & history, but all straightforward.
- One week later: cards in hand
Total Continue reading
Kontainer Korner: CNCF Welcomes CRI-O, Graduates Fluentd
Plus, Google's Anthos launch draws new Kubernetes-focused storage updates, and Knative turns 0.5.
Weekly Top Posts: 2019-04-14
- Pentagon Narrows JEDI Cloud Contract Down to Amazon and Microsoft
- IoT Security Startup Armis Raises $65 Million Series C
- Canada’s Rogers Spends Big to Secure 600 MHz Spectrum for 5G
- ONF Releases Trio of Reference Designs With Buy-In From Operators, Vendors
- SDxCentral Weekly Wrap: LF Networking Releases Compliance, Verification Testing
Worth Reading: There Is No Magic
I’m not the only one telling people not to bet the farm on Santa Claus and dancing unicorns. Pete Welcher wrote a nice blog post describing the implications of laws of physics and data gravity (I described the gory details in Designing Active-Active Data Centers and AWS Networking Deep Dive webinars).
Meanwhile, Russ White reviewed an article that (without admitting it) discovered that serverless is just software running on other people’s servers.
Enjoy!
Trump Boasts American Leadership on 5G
Trump gave his speech on 5G surrounded by a group of farmers wearing cowboy hats and cell tower...
Matt Oswalt – Speaker Bio
Photo Short Bio Matt Oswalt hails from Portland, OR, and focuses on the intersection of network infrastructure, automation, systems, and software engineering. He’s passionate about enabling engineers to evolve their careers to the next level, and sharing the bright spots that exist within the technology industry with the masses. You can often find him speaking at conferences or meetups about these topics, as well as writing about them on his blog (https://keepingitclassless.Keeping It Classless 1970-01-01 00:00:00
One thing that’s always bugged me about the whole “You’ll be out of a job in 5,10,15 years if you don’t learn programming” is this. Who cares when you’ll be OUT OF A JOB? It’s like we’re driving a car in dense fog, trying to figure out when to perfectly apply the brakes so that we don’t go over a cliff that’s SOMEWHERE in the distance. Like - the fact that we’re even having this debate is a horrible waste of time in my opinion.Alexa , AWS Lambda & AWS IOT MQTT and you can interact with anything
I hear a lot on IOT but don’t have a clue on underlying protocols. My interest is only to understand how it might help a business or more than that my personal interests. So continuing the server power on/off series I wanted to do it with Amazon echo voice command. Now, this is not a smart power switch where you can power-on with a command on Echo but you actually have to send a message to IDRAC, we already covered this in a previous post.
Well, the main goal isn’t to power-on a server that can be done manually as it sits beside me, the main goal is to extend this to any business / personal ideas which might get the benefit.
Summary – Develop a small interactive model to understand Alexa voice service / AWS lambda and MQTT so that we can get a feel of what can be achieved with this.
I will not go much into any tech explanations or bore you with English, I will put here two screenshots and code to git, hopefully, you should be able to give it a try.
Its illustrated in 6 steps
- Voice command to echo (I have made Continue reading
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap: Google Anthos Marks Aggressive Play Against AWS and Microsoft Azure
SDxCentral Weekly Wrap for April 12, 2019: Anthos manages on premises and across public clouds;...
