Wireless Doctors
Wireless is a complicated thing. Even when you try to distill it down to networking basics on the wired side of the access point, you still have a very hard problem to solve on the radio side. Even I’ve talked in the past about how wireless is now considered a “solved” problem. But, the more I interact with wireless professionals and the more I think about the problem, the issue isn’t that IT departments think wireless is solved, it’s that they don’t appreciate the value of a specialist.
The Last Place Doctor
There’s an old joke that goes, “What do you call the person that graduated last in their medical school class? Doctor.” Professionals spend a lot of their time learning a tradecraft and practicing it to get better. And it’s not just doctors. So do plumbers, electricians, and teachers. Anyone that has ever tried to do any of these trades will tell you that the basics are capable of being figured out by the average non-professional, but the details are a huge leap.
You’d never assume that being able to put on a Band-Aid on a scrape would qualify you to do brain surgery. Or that changing a Continue reading
Future Thinking: Cyrating on Cyber Threats
In 2017, the Internet Society unveiled the 2017 Global Internet Report: Paths to Our Digital Future. The interactive report identifies the drivers affecting tomorrow’s Internet and their impact on Media & Society, Digital Divides, and Personal Rights & Freedoms. In February 2018, we interviewed two stakeholders – Cyrating, a cybersecurity ratings agency, and Niel Harper, Senior Manager, Next Generation Leaders at the Internet Society – to hear their different perspectives on the forces shaping the Internet’s future.
Cyrating is the first cybersecurity ratings agency anchored in Europe, and helps forward-thinking organizations maximize their cybersecurity performance and investments. It identifies potential for improvement, benchmarks it against industry best practices, and provides standardized cybersecurity metrics. We spoke to François Gratiolet, one of Cyrating’s founders, about the future of a secure and trusted Internet.
(You can read Niel Harper’s interview here).
The Internet Society: Experts predict an increase of frequency and impact of cyberattacks. What form are they likely to take in the next three to five years?
François Gratiolet: We believe cyberattacks will intensify in the next three to five years; targeting both Internet users and the Internet’s underlying infrastructure. User attacks will move from phishing to social media, with Continue reading
Go Subscriber-Centric and Think Beyond the Legacy Network
A new white paper from Hewlett Packard Enterprise discusses how today’s (and tomorrow’s) successful CSPs are harnessing the power of telecom data to simplify their customers’ lives.
#PressForProgress – International Women’s Day 2018 | A Cloudflare & Branch Event
Almost a year ago, I began my journey in the tech industry at a growing company called Cloudflare. I’m a 30-something paralegal and although I didn’t know how to write code (yet), I was highly motivated and ready to crush. I had worked hard for the previous two years, focused on joining a thriving company where I could grow my intelligence, further develop my skill set and work alongside successful professionals. And finally, my hard work paid off; I landed the job at Cloudflare and booked a seat on the rocket ship.
After the initial whirlwind that accompanies this fast-paced field subsided, motivation, inspiration, success, momentum and endurance began to flood my neurons. I loved the inner workings of a successful startup, felt the good and bad of the tech industry, related to and admired the female executives and most importantly, wanted to give something back to the community that adopted me.
Venus Approaching the Sun Source: Flickr
During a routine chat with my dad, I pitched what I thought was a crazy idea. Crazy because I was so used to being told “no” at previous jobs, used to not having my ideas taken seriously, and also used to not Continue reading
PQ 140: OPNsense Wants To Be Your Open-Source Firewall
Today's Priority Queue looks at OPNsense, the open-source firewall and router. We examine features and capabilities, how it differs from other open firewalls, and more. The post PQ 140: OPNsense Wants To Be Your Open-Source Firewall appeared first on Packet Pushers.
Big Changes Ahead for Core Internet Protocols – IETF Journal
Excellent summary of what seems to be poorly understood. IPv6 is going nowhere slowly but the higher level protocols are changing today. Now, significant changes to the core Internet protocols are underway. While they are intended to be compatible with the Internet at large (since they won’t get adoption otherwise), they might be disruptive to […]
Big Red Button for Network Automation
A while ago I was enjoying a few beers with a longtime friend of mine who happens to be running the networking team for one of the rare companies that understands how infrastructure should be built and operated.
Of course, I had to ask him what he thinks about the imminent death of CLI and all-encompassing automatic provisioning from some central orchestration system. Here’s the gist of his response:
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In this excerpt from "Practical Network Automation," learn how to get started with Ansible for networking.
Take Application Security to the Next Level – VMware and Carbon Black team up
Perhaps you’ve already begun to secure virtualized applications by rolling out micro-segmentation with NSX, but segmentation of the network is only the beginning to embracing least privilege in your environment.
VMware has teamed up with Carbon Black to go beyond network protection and change the way your data center endpoints themselves are protected. By leveraging the unique properties of virtualization and the hypervisor, along with next-generation detection and response, VMware and Carbon Black are able to shrink your environment’s attack surface and respond to detected threats with precision and speed.
Learn more here, and come see the solution in action at the Cloud Force Security road show (coming to a city near you)!
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Dell EMC Introduces New Certifications to Establish and Validate IT Skills of the Future
Four new certifications help organizations maximize technology investments, modernize IT, build in-house transformation expertise Highest-level certification, Dell EMC Certified Master – Enterprise Architect, validates ability to design and implement secure IT-as-a-Service solutions for the digital economy Additional certifications focused on converged/hyper-converged infrastructure, multi-cloud administration and infrastructure security Dell EMC unveiled new certifications that establish and... Read more →
Accedian Acquires APM, NPM Vendor Performance Vision
Performance Vision’s software will be rebranded as Skylight PVX.
Kublr Kubernetes Distro Update Opens Up Enterprise Container Plans
The company touts easier deployment and management compared with rivals.
How to Begin Integrating AI into Data Center Operations
Data center automation is inevitable. Here's how to do it right from the beginning.
BiB 036: Anuta Launches ATOM For Network Infrastructure Orchestration
Anuta Networks launches its ATOM platform for multi-vendor network infrastructure automation and orchestration.
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NANOG Keynote: History of the Internet (it was not the bomb)
Scott Bradner retired in late 2016 after more than 50 years in Harvard University IT. Along the way he worked in the IETF for 25 years – 10 on the IESG – and served on the ISOC & ARIN boards.
Validating Leaked Passwords with k-Anonymity
Today, v2 of Pwned Passwords was released as part of the Have I Been Pwned service offered by Troy Hunt. Containing over half a billion real world leaked passwords, this database provides a vital tool for correcting the course of how the industry combats modern threats against password security.
I have written about how we need to rethink password security and Pwned Passwords v2 in the following post: How Developers Got Password Security So Wrong. Instead, in this post I want to discuss one of the technical contributions Cloudflare has made towards protecting user information when using this tool.
Cloudflare continues to support Pwned Passwords by providing CDN and security functionality such that the data can easily be made available for download in raw form to organisations to protect their customers. Further; as part of the second iteration of this project, I have also worked with Troy on designing and implementing API endpoints that support anonymised range queries to function as an additional layer of security for those consuming the API, that is visible to the client.
This contribution allows for Pwned Passwords clients to use range queries to search for breached passwords, without having to disclose a complete unsalted Continue reading