Google Cloud Creates an IoT Service for Enterprises
Google has done consumer IoT, but this is its first foray into industrial IoT.
Privacy and Visibility – The dichotomy of encryption and inspection
The encoding or encryption of communications and information is a very old practice. The concept is relatively simple. One of the easiest examples is simply to reverse the alphabet, A for Z, B for X and so on. The reverse function is the ‘key’ to deciphering the message. We needn’t go into the detailed but fascinating history of the evolution of cryptography and the concept and method of the key. Instead we only need to touch on a few key historical milestones and how they have impacted the world today.
Cryptography is indeed an old practice. The ancient Romans would write encrypted messages on strips of cloth that were wrapped around wooden staffs of various widths. They would then send just the cloth strip with the courier. Only if the right staff was used could the message be deciphered. Here the ‘key’ is the width of the staff. That information would either be known or communicated to the receiver ahead of time so that they would have the right staff on hand to decipher the message. Obviously if anyone intercepted the information regarding the width of the staff, they could also decipher the message if they intercepted that as well. Continue reading
CoreOS Adds Mozilla Co-Founder Mitchell Baker to its Board
The container company has increased its focus on the enterprise market.
Troubleshooting: Half Split
The best models will support the second crucial skill required for troubleshooting: seeing the system as a set of problems to be solved. The problem/solution mindset is so critical in really understanding how networks really work, and hence how to troubleshoot them, that Ethan Banks and I are writing an entire book around this concept. The essential points are these—
- Understand the set of problems being solved
- Understand a wide theoretical set of solutions for this problem, including how each solution interacts with other problems and solutions, potential side effects of using each solution, and where the common faults lie in each solution
- Understand this implementation
of this solution
Having this kind of information in your head will help you pull in detail where needed to fill in the models of each system; just as you cannot keep all four of the primary systems in your head at once, you also cannot effectively troubleshoot without a reservoir of more detailed knowledge about each system, or the ready ability to absorb more information about each system as needed. Having a problem/solution mindset also helps keep you focused in troubleshooting.
So you have built models of each system, and you have learned Continue reading
NEC Partners with Dell EMC to Deliver SD-LAN
The technology is complementary to any WAN deployment.
Use a Zero Trust Approach to Protect Against WannaCry
Micro-segmentation with VMware NSX compartmentalizes the data center to contain the lateral spread of ransomware attacks such as WannaCry
On May 12 2017, reports began to appear of the WannaCry malware attacking organizations worldwide in one of the largest ransomware cyber incidents to date. The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has reported more than 200,000 attacks in over 150 countries and in 27, with the full scope of the attack yet to be determined. Victims include organizations from all verticals.
WannaCry targets Microsoft Windows machines, seizing control of computer systems through a critical vulnerability in Windows SMB. It also utilizes RDP as an attack vector for propagation. It encrypts seized systems and demands a ransom be paid before decrypting the system and giving back control. The threat propagates laterally to other systems on the network via SMB or RDP and then repeats the process. An initial analysis of WannaCry by the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) can be found here, with a detailed analysis from Malware Bytes here.
One foundational aspect of increasing cybersecurity hygiene in an organization to help mitigate such attacks from proliferating is enabling a least privilege (zero trust) model by embedding security directly into the data center network. The Continue reading
TM Forum Tool Targets Slow Digital Adoption by Operators
The Digital Maturity Model application takes five metrics into account.
Worth Reading: A simple start to project management
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