The Internet is the Future of the WAN, but MPLS will Persist
Every enterprise will have its own strategy for migrating to the internet. EMA believes SD-WAN will be essential to nearly all organizations that make this transition.
Infinera Corporate Restructuring Plan Hits 53 Jobs in California
The initial phase of the program will cost between $6 million and $8 million and is linked to Infinera's recently closed $430 million acquisition of Coriant.
Trump Considers New Attack on Huawei, ZTE
But Huawei may be getting the best kind of revenge. The company says its revenues in 2018 grew 21 percent over the previous year.
Meeting Your Deadlines Is Never Easy
2018 has been a busy year. There’s been a lot going on in the networking world and the pace of things keeps accelerating. I’ve been inundated with things this last month, including endless requests for my 2019 predictions and where I think the market is going. Since I’m not a prediction kind of person, I wanted to take just a couple of moments to talk more about something that I did find interesting from 2018 – deadlines.
Getting It Out The Door
Long-time readers of this blog may remember that I’ve always had a goal set for myself of trying to get one post published every week. It’s a deadline I set for myself to make sure that I didn’t let my blog start decaying into something that is barely updated. I try to hold fast to my word and get something new out every week. Sometimes it’s simple, like reflections on one of the various Tech Field Day events that I’m working on that week. But there’s always something.
That is, until Cisco Live this year. I somehow got so wrapped up in things that I missed a post for the first time in eight years! Granted, this was Continue reading
Dell Runs the Gauntlet to Achieve Its Goal of Going Public
It took Michael Dell 12 months of battling shareholders — and ultimately paying them about $14 billion — to once again take his company public.
ZTE Spent 2018 Engulfed in International Intrigue
ZTE's year included claims of espionage, direct intervention from President Donald Trump, a growing list of countries banning use of its equipment, and a $1 billion hit to its bottom line.
How to Manage Complex Infrastructures–with Thousands of Workloads–for Optimal Results
Workload placement once required best guesses, but automated workload analysis is changing the game
Happy Pink Dot SG from the Proudflare team!
Pink Dot SG is an event which takes place every June in Singapore to celebrate LGBTQIA+ pride! Cloudflare participated this year, on June 21st. We’re a little late, but wanted to share what we got up to. Pink Dot SG started in 2009, as a way for queer people and allies alike to demonstrate their belief that everyone deserves the “freedom to love.”
Proudflare at Pink Dot ‘18
Proudflare, Cloudflare's LGBTQIA+ employee resource group, finds ways to support and provide resources for the LGBTQIA+ community, both within Cloudflare and in the larger community.
Proudflare started in 2017 in our San Francisco headquarters and in 2018, the Proudflare Singapore chapter was formed. We were excited to participate in our first public-facing event and demonstrate Cloudflare’s commitment to equality and dignity for all people!
We took to the streets this year to celebrate, but more importantly demand equality for our community in Singapore. It was an exciting event, with heaps of buzz, cheer, and joy amongst the crowd! Pink Dot SG included LGBTQIA+-themed events, information tents, a concert, and onstage were 10 Declarations for Equality, a list of changes the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies are ready for and Continue reading
Concerned About Cloud Security? This ‘Just Right’ Solution Might be the Answer for You
As the cloud has become a ubiquitous part of business life over the last few years, there are still lingering concerns and misconceptions around cloud security.
2018 Is a Year Huawei Would Like to Forget
Can it get much worse than having its CFO arrested and being accused of violating sanctions?
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Datanauts 155: The Mad Libs Prediction Show
In our final Datanauts episode for this year, we review how the show did over 2018, talk a little about how the show comes together, and finish with our 2019 predictions done Mad Libs-style.
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The Importance of the Multistakeholder Approach: My Experience at the Internet Governance Forum
My name is Gustavo Babo, I’m from Brazil and I’m a Law and Political Science student. One of my biggest interests is to understand the best way to create national and international policies related to the Internet and other technologies such as Artificial Intelligence, IoT, and Blockchain. Having participated in the IGF as a 2018 Youth@IGF Fellow has enhanced my perspective on the future of all these technologies. Enjoy my opinion!
Throughout the IGF event, in all the panels I have attended, I have noticed one thing in common: the feeling that the human being has had less-and-less control over technology and its implications. The unpredictable factor for the future of some emerging technologies that have developed very rapidly is a situation that divided the event into two perspectives: some of those present believe that technology will bring to the world many positive situations and we need to collaborate with its acceleration to any cost. However, there are others who fear the speed and lack of control of the impacts of these technologies – which are really transforming the world – believing also that the human being may be tracing a disastrous path for itself, since we no longer control Continue reading
2019: Taking One Day at a Time
I was asked the other day what my New Year’s Resolutions for 2019 were. The truth is I don’t actually have any. I haven’t, in my life, been the best at “using New Year’s Resolutions” in the “healthiest of ways“. What do I mean by that? Well for example, one... Read More ›
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The Top Acquisitions of 2018 in SDxCentral’s World
Open source and containers found themselves at the center of M&A activity this year.
The Four Essential Personalities for a Strong Cybersecurity Team
A security team with a broader view of issues can provide better plans and solutions to problems and the ability to react effectively and quickly in a security emergency.
DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Support in Mozilla Firefox
Recent releases of Firefox have introduced the concept of DNS privacy under the name “Trusted Recursive Resolver”. Although Firefox ships with DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) disabled by default, there has been some discussion within the Mozilla developer community about changing the default to “enabled”.
Although DoH is somewhat controversial because it moves control plane (signalling) messages to the data plane (data forwarding), and can thereby bypass local network policies, DoH advocates argue that it makes it harder to block or monitor DNS queries which is a commonly used method for restricting access to the Internet and/or monitoring user behaviour.
But putting these arguments aside, if you want to try out DoH then the DNS privacy (or “TRR” in Firefox speak) configuration in Firefox can be accessed as follows:
- Enter “about:config” in the address box of the browser
- Search for “trr” (without quotes)
A sample output of DNS privacy configuration in Mozilla Firefox is as follows:
Firefox offers its technical users quite a few settings to play with, but the most important options (along with their recommended settings) for TRR are:
- trr.bootstrapAddress:(empty)
- trr.mode: 3
- trr.uri: https://mozilla.cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query
“network.trr.bootstrapAddress” specifies the IP address of a recursive resolver that should Continue reading
Concise Christmas Cryptography Challenges 2019
Last year we published some crypto challenges to keep you momentarily occupied from the festivities. This year, we're doing the same. Whether you're bored or just want to learn a bit more about the technologies that encrypt the internet, feel free to give these short cryptography quizzes a go.
We're withholding answers until the start of the new year, to give you a chance to solve them without spoilers. Before we reveal the answers; if you manage to solve them, we'll be giving the first 5 people to get the answers right some Cloudflare swag. Fill out your answers and details using this form so we know where to send it.
Have fun!
NOTE: Hints are below the questions, avoid scrolling too far if you want to avoid any spoilers.
Challenges
Client says Hello
Client says hello, as follows: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Time-Based One-Time Password
A user has an authenticator device to generate one time passwords for logins to their banking website. The implementation contains a fatal flaw.
At the following times, the following codes are generated (all in GMT/UTC):
- Friday, 21 December 2018 16:29:28 - Continue reading