Anuta Launches Smart Network Platform for Multi-Vendor Networks
The platform provides networks with containerized assurance, telemetry, and orchestration.
Affirmed Networks Says its 5G Mobile Core Is Ready to Roll
The company expects the technology will be commercially deployed later this year.
Context-Aware Micro-segmentation – Remote Desktop Session Host Enhancements for Citrix
In a previous post by my colleague, Stijn, discussed the new changes to how NSX for vSphere 6.4 handles Remote Desktop Session Host, RDSH, systems with the Identity-based Firewall and context-aware micro-segmentation.
RDSH is an underlying technology from Microsoft that many vendors take advantage of to provide overlay management and application deployment technologies for. In this post, we’re going to discuss how NSX 6.4 and the new changes to support RDSH hosts works with Citrix XenApp systems.
Citrix XenApp can provide multiple users the ability to connect to a single system to access their applications using the RDSH technology. These users can be of the same type, for example all HR users, or of multiple types, HR and Engineering users. NSX has supported User Identity based firewalling for Virtual Desktops since the 6.0 release, but it did not address RDSH in which multiple user sessions are connecting to the same host This meant less flexibility in controlling what users could access data center application servers without isolating one set of users to one RDSH server. This model created a very rigid architecture for XenApp customers to follow, which brought about the use of Continue reading
VMware’s Honore’ LaBourdette Discusses ‘Hybridity’ & the Next Wave of Telco Virtualization
With 5G and the Internet of Things (IoT) dominating industry conversation, telcos and other communications service providers (CSPs) are embracing network function virtualization and the cloud, with a software-defined architecture. But to truly participate in the cloud economy, compete effectively with OTT rivals, and be positioned to capture the rich opportunities presented by 5G and... Read more →
Blockchain Makes an Appearance at Mobile World Congress 2018
The new Trusted IoT Alliance looks at the intersection of IoT, security, and blockchain.
eBrief: The Pros & Cons of OpenStack
The Pros and Cons of OpenStack eBrief from SDxCentral delves into the latest developments in OpenStack and its progress. Download today.
The Future of Online Privacy and Personal Data Protection in Africa
African experts are gathered for two days (19-20 February 2018) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to contribute to the development of the African Privacy and Personal Data Protection Guidelines. The meeting, facilitated by the African Union Commission (AUC) and supported by Internet Society, explored the future of privacy and data protection and provided some practical suggestions that African states can consider in implementing the Malabo convention provisions related to online privacy. The guidelines are aimed at empowering citizens, as well as establishing legal certainty for stakeholders through clear and uniform personal data protection rules for the region.
The expert meeting comes amidst growing concern across the world on the need to prepare for the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will be enforced on 25 May 2018. The expert meeting is rather focused on creating general principles for African member states in developing good practices now and in the future. The project, a partnership of the AUC and the Internet Society, comes as a follow up to the recommendations of the Africa Infrastructure Security Guidelines, developed in 2017 to assist speed up their adoption and subsequent ratification of the Malabo Convention.
Both the Heads of States Summit in January Continue reading
Report: Distributed IoT Security and Standards Workshop at NDSS 2018
Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium is in full swing for its 25th anniversary year. As usual the NDSS program includes a really impressive array of great content on a wide range of topics. Prior to the main event there were four one-day workshops on themes related to the topic of NDSS: Binary Analysis Research, DNS Privacy, Usable Security, and the workshop I’d like to delve into here, Distributed IoT Security and Standards (DISS).
The DISS workshop received 29 submissions and accepted 12 papers. In an interesting twist on the usual scientific workshop format, the presented papers were all still in draft form and will now be revised based on the Q&A and offline discussions that took place as a result of the workshop. Revised papers will be published by the Internet Society in due course.
Introducing proceedings, co-chair Dirk Kutscher explained that it has become evident that the success of the Internet of Things (IoT) depends on sound and usable security and privacy. Device constraints, intermittent network connectivity, the scale of deployments, economic issues all combine to create an interesting and challenging environment for the research community to address.
A decentralised approach to IoT security Continue reading