Kentik’s Avi Freedman on Bringing Network Monitoring Into the Digital, Virtual Age
In this interview, Avi Freedman, Kentik’s co-founder and CEO, discusses why Kentik’s approach is unique in the market, and gives his vision of where it goes next.
History Of Networking – Paul Mockapetris – Origins of DNS
Paul Mockapetris, co-inventor of the Domain Name System, joins Network Collective to talk about how DNS grew from an undesirable computer science experiment to one of the critical services that makes the Internet what it is today.
Paul Mockapetris
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Russ White
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Donald Sharp
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Jordan Martin
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Outro Music:
Danger Storm Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Introducing Cloudflare Access: Like BeyondCorp, But You Don’t Have To Be A Google Employee To Use It
Tell me if this sounds familiar: any connection from inside the corporate network is trusted and any connection from the outside is not. This is the security strategy used by most enterprises today. The problem is that once the firewall, or gateway, or VPN server creating this perimeter is breached, the attacker gets immediate, easy and trusted access to everything.
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There’s a second problem with the traditional security perimeter model. It either requires employees to be on the corporate network (i.e. physically in the office) or using a VPN, which slows down work because every page load makes extra round trips to the VPN server. After all this hassle, users on the VPN are still highly susceptible to phishing, man-in-the-middle and SQL injection attacks.
A few years ago, Google pioneered a solution for their own employees called BeyondCorp. Instead of keeping their internal applications on the intranet, they made them accessible on the internet. There became no concept of in or outside the network. The network wasn’t some fortified citadel, everything was on the internet, and no connections were trusted. Everyone had to prove they are who they say they are.
Hybrid Cloud: 4 Top Use Cases
Interop ITX expert Camberley Bates explains which hybrid cloud deployments are most likely to succeed.
Ansible, Chef, Puppet or Salt? Which One Should I Use?
One of the first things I did when I started my deep-dive into network automation topics was to figure what tools people use to automate stuff and (on a pretty high level) what each one of these tools do.
You often hear about Ansible, Chef and Puppet when talking about network automation tools, with Salt becoming more popular, and CFEngine being occasionally mentioned. However, most network automation engineers prefer Ansible. Here are a few reasons.
Read more ...NetDevOpEd: Abstracting configuration management
I was talking to a banking customer in Northern Europe the other day and they asked me about configuration management. They had many different vendors with different management methods in their infrastructure and wanted to know how they could speed up management.
This specific customer had an outsourced infrastructure. They picked what hardware they wanted to run, but then paid a managed services company to deploy the infrastructure in a colocation facility and perform day-to-day operations.
The issue arose in the speed of deployment. When they launched a new application that required a new service in their data center, the application engineers would need to contact the network team in this bank. The network team would then open up a ticket with the managed services company to provision VLANs and open up ports on their firewalls to allow access to the application. The issue was that this process took up to one week to complete.
This bank contacted us with the hope we could help them unify their management under one framework, so that they could insource the firewall configuration to accelerate their application deployments. They asked me about automated management best practices.
Normally when I have this conversation, we Continue reading
Check Out Our Newest Google Cloud Course
For those of you that are looking to familiarize yourself with the Google Cloud Platform, you’re in luck! we have just released Google Cloud Platform: PaaS with App Engine. This course is now available to All Access Pass members through your members account, and to everyone else through purchase at ine.com.
This course is just one of a growing collection of Google classes offered by INE, we also plan on releasing a Google Data Storage course later this week. Until then, read on to learn about Joseph Holbrook’s latest addition to our Google video course library.
Why Study Google App Engine?
Google App Engine is an extremely useful tool; it is a fully managed platform that completely abstracts away infrastructure so you can focus only on code.
About the Course:
This course covers Google App Engine PaaS and more specifically the history, features and functions of Google App Engine. The instructor will explain the benefits of using Google App Engine with live examples and demos.
The course is 4 hours and 5 minutes long and is taught by Joseph Holbrook.
What You’ll Learn:
Students will dive into both deployment models of the App Engine and learn how Continue reading
Former Sigfox Exec Blames Management Differences on Departure
Sigfox says Proithis' departure was part of a strategic decision.
Response: The Five Stages of Cloud Grief | Postmodern Security
Five stages of cloud grief
AT&T XGS-PON Field Trial Boosts ONAP Network Control
The carrier used an enhanced abstraction platform christened OSAM-HA.
NS1 Adds Security Capabilities, Takes on ‘DNS Cache Poisoning’ Attacks
DNSSEC prevents attacks in which hackers trick the DNS system into storing false IP addresses.
China Activates Historic Himalayan Link To Nepal
On 10 January 2018, China Telecom activated a long-awaited terrestrial link to the landlocked country of Nepal. The new fiber optic connection, which traverses the Himalayan mountain range, alters a significant aspect of Nepal’s exclusive dependency on India, shifting the balance of power (at least for international connectivity) in favor of Kathmandu.
Breaking India’s monopoly in providing Internet access to Nepal, China becomes their second service provider. #China #Internethttps://t.co/sQEM7aqCms
— The Hindu (@the_hindu) January 13, 2018
Following a number of brief trials since mid-November, Nepal Telecom fully activated Internet transit from China Telecom at 08:28 UTC on 10 January 2018, as depicted below.
In our 2015 coverage of the earthquake that devastated Nepal, I wrote:
Nepal, as well as Bhutan, are both South Asian landlocked countries wedged between India and China that are dependent on India for a number of services including telecommunications. As a result, each country has been courting Chinese engagement that would provide a redundant source of Internet connectivity.
In December 2016, executives Ou Yan of China Telecom Global (CTG) and Lochan Lal Amatya of Nepal Telecom (pictured below) signed an agreement to route IP service through a new terrestrial cable running between Continue reading
ETSI Zero-Touch Group Gets to Work on Future Networks, Service Management
The group elected its leadership and determined its working topics.