10 Security Startups that Investors Are Funding
These 10 security companies raised more than $499 million in just the last month as security remains a top priority for many enterprises.
Diving into the DNS
DNS OARC organizes two meetings a year. They are two-day meetings with a concentrated dose of DNS esoterica. Here’s what I took away from the recent 29th meeting of OARC, held in Amsterdam in mid-October 2018.Short Take – Problems And Solutions
In this Network Collective Short Take, Russ shares his thoughts on the value of really understanding the problem at hand before settling on a specific solution.
Russ White
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IXPs: Why Is the Middle East Lagging Behind?
On October 2nd, the Internet Society was happy to support the ITU in organizing the IXP Workshop on Peering and Interconnection in the Arab World “Towards unlocking regional interconnection opportunities” It was held in Manama-Bahrain, and kindly hosted by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of Bahrain. This workshop was held on the eve of the Annual Meeting of the Arab ICT Regulators Network (AREGNET), and 30 regulators and 10 operators attended from all over the Arab region.
The workshop started with an overview of the Arab peering landscape given by Christine Arida, Director for Telecom Services and Planning at National Telecom Regulatory Authority of Egypt. Christine showed that the region is well served by undersea cables, with the oldest IXP established 20 years ago. However, all countries have either an underperforming IXP or do not have one at all. Regionally, cross-border interconnection is almost non-existent – with very few exceptions and most of the traffic is exchanged in London and Marseilles.
The debate started with an acknowledgement that strong and vibrant IXPs are needed in the Arab region. IXPs are a means and not the end… They are the enablers of digital transformation and a means to attract investment. Cheaper Continue reading
Automating UCS Manager Configuration with Ansible
Cisco UCS Manager is the management plane service for Cisco UCS solutions. Using a policy-based management approach, server configurations are decoupled from the physical hardware.
New: Expert ipSpace.net Subscription
Earlier this month I got this email from someone who had attended one of my online courses before and wanted to watch another one of them:
Is it possible for you to bundle a 1 year subscription at no extra cost if I purchase the Building Next-Generation Data Center course?
We were planning to do something along these lines for a long time, and his email was just what I needed to start a weekend-long hackathon.
End result: Expert ipSpace.net Subscription. It includes:
Read more ...Ericsson Fired 50 People in Corruption Scandal Fallout
CEO Borje Ekholm said an investigation of the company by the SEC and DOJ started in 2013. The scandal put a damper on otherwise positive third quarter results.
Announcement: Cumulus recognized by both our employees & customers
It’s not every day you get recognized. But to get recognized TWICE in one day? Now that’s a rare experience. We’re thrilled to announce that Cumulus Networks has been recognized with both the FORTUNE 2018 50 Best Small and 100 Medium Size Companies to Work For award, as well as Gartner Customers’ Choice for Data Center Networking.
With recognition like this, we’re taking time to celebrate and appreciate the awesome and talented people we get to work with every day.
Cumulus awarded as a FORTUNE 2018 50 Best Small and 100 Medium Size Companies to Work For
The Fortune award is one of the most prestigious and for good reason — Their rigorous methodology focuses on more than just benefits and office snacks. According to their 2017 methodology statement:
All employees were invited to participate in the survey, which is designed to reveal whether the organization is consistently a great place to work for all its people. Meaning: Do employees trust the people they work for? Are they treated fairly and with respect? Are people proud of their work? Do they enjoy the folks they work with? Are great experiences available to everyone – or does it Continue reading
IPv6 Buzz 011: An IPv6 Address Planning Guide
Today's episode explores the ins and outs of IPv6 address planning, with IPv6 Buzz co-host Tom Coffeen in the guest chair. Tom discusses how to get away from "IPv4 thinking" when planning your v6 transition, and shares his real-world experiences of IPv6 adoption with CDNs and service providers.IPv6 Buzz 011: An IPv6 Address Planning Guide
Today's episode explores the ins and outs of IPv6 address planning, with IPv6 Buzz co-host Tom Coffeen in the guest chair. Tom discusses how to get away from "IPv4 thinking" when planning your v6 transition, and shares his real-world experiences of IPv6 adoption with CDNs and service providers.
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DT, Intel, MobiledgeX Lead TIP’s Edge App Developer Project
The group will produce vendor-neutral APIs and software tools focused on mobile functions running on edge infrastructure.
McAfee Uncovers New Security Threat Linked to China
McAfee also added new products to its Mvision enterprise security portfolio including endpoint detection and response and an integrated data loss prevention policy engine across endpoints, networks, and the cloud.
Encrypt that SNI: Firefox edition
A couple of weeks ago we announced support for the encrypted Server Name Indication (SNI) TLS extension (ESNI for short). As promised, our friends at Mozilla landed support for ESNI in Firefox Nightly, so you can now browse Cloudflare websites without leaking the plaintext SNI TLS extension to on-path observers (ISPs, coffee-shop owners, firewalls, …). Today we'll show you how to enable it and how to get full marks on our Browsing Experience Security Check.
Here comes the night
The first step is to download and install the very latest Firefox Nightly build, or, if you have Nightly already installed, make sure it’s up to date.
When we announced our support for ESNI we also created a test page you can point your browser to https://encryptedsni.com which checks whether your browser / DNS configuration is providing a more secure browsing experience by using secure DNS transport, DNSSEC validation, TLS 1.3 & ESNI itself when it connects to our test page. Before you make any changes to your Firefox configuration, you might well see a result something like this:
So, room for improvement! Next, head to the about:config page and look for the network.security.esni.enabled Continue reading