IPv6 Buzz 131: Why Bother With IPv6 When Everyone’s Using NAT?
Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast riffs on a question raised in a Reddit thread that asks why you should use IPv6 when NAT exists. Tom, Ed, and Scott provide answers, and also discuss the complicated role of NAT in both IPv6 and IPv4 networks in the past, present, and future.
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IPv6 Buzz 131: Why Bother With IPv6 When Everyone’s Using NAT?
Today's IPv6 Buzz podcast riffs on a question raised in a Reddit thread that asks why you should use IPv6 when NAT exists. Tom, Ed, and Scott provide answers, and also discuss the complicated role of NAT in both IPv6 and IPv4 networks in the past, present, and future.Cybernews Expert Interview with Tigera President and CEO, Ratan Tipirneni
The challenges companies face regarding private and professional data protection are more important today than ever. In the modern enterprise, cloud computing and the use of cloud-native architectures enable unmatched performance, flexibility, velocity, and innovation. However, as digitalization pushes applications and services to the cloud, cyber criminals’ intrusion techniques have become increasingly sophisticated. To stay current with advancing technologies, doubling or tripling security measures is a must.
To understand the critical need for advanced cybersecurity measures, we turned to an expert in the industry, Ratan Tipirneni, President and CEO of Tigera – a company providing active, zero-trust-based security for cloud-native applications running on containers and Kubernetes.
Q: How did the idea of Tigera originate? What has your journey been like so far?
It was over six years ago that Tigera created Project Calico, an open-source container networking and security project.
As containers and Kubernetes adoption grew and organizations started using Kubernetes at scale, Tigera recognized the industry’s need for more advanced security and observability. Tigera has since grown from the Project Calico open-source project to a container security innovator that now supports many Fortune 100 companies across the globe.
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Kubernetes Unpacked 031: Is Kubernetes Getting Boring?
In today's Kubernetes Unpacked, Kristina and Michael talk about whether Kubernetes is getting boring, and how elements such as service mesh, security-centric CNIs, and movements such as GitOps, can keep Kubernetes moving forward.
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Kubernetes Unpacked 031: Is Kubernetes Getting Boring?
In today's Kubernetes Unpacked, Kristina and Michael talk about whether Kubernetes is getting boring, and how elements such as service mesh, security-centric CNIs, and movements such as GitOps, can keep Kubernetes moving forward.Routing information now on Cloudflare Radar
Routing is one of the most critical operations of the Internet. Routing decides how and where the Internet traffic should flow from the source to the destination, and can be categorized into two major types: intra-domain routing and inter-domain routing. Intra-domain routing handles making decisions on how individual packets should be routed among the servers and routers within an organization/network. When traffic reaches the edge of a network, the inter-domain routing kicks in to decide what the next hop is and forward the traffic along to the corresponding networks. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the de facto inter-domain routing protocol used on the Internet.
Today, we are introducing another section on Cloudflare Radar: the Routing page, which focuses on monitoring the BGP messages exchanged to extract and present insights on the IP prefixes, individual networks, countries, and the Internet overall. The new routing data allows users to quickly examine routing status of the Internet, examine secure routing protocol deployment for a country, identify routing anomalies, validate IP block reachability and much more from globally distributed vantage points.
It’s a detailed view of how the Internet itself holds together.
Collecting routing statistics
The Internet consists of tens of thousands of interconnected Continue reading
Q2 2023 Internet disruption summary
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Cloudflare operates in more than 300 cities in over 100 countries, where we interconnect with over 12,000 network providers in order to provide a broad range of services to millions of customers. The breadth of both our network and our customer base provides us with a unique perspective on Internet resilience, enabling us to observe the impact of Internet disruptions.
The second quarter of 2023 was a particularly busy one for Internet disruptions, and especially for government-directed Internet shutdowns. During the quarter, we observed many brief disruptions, but also quite a few long-lived ones. In addition to the government-directed Internet shutdowns, we also observed partial or complete outages due to severe weather, cable damage, power outages, general or unspecified technical problems, cyberattacks, military action, and infrastructure maintenance.
As we have noted in the past, this post is intended as a summary overview of observed disruptions, and is not an exhaustive or complete list of issues that have occurred during the quarter.
Government directed
Late spring often marks the start of a so-called “exam season” in several Continue reading
Day Two Cloud 204: Deploying Cloud-Delivered Security With Cisco Secure Access (Sponsored)
On today's Day Two Cloud we get inside Cisco Secure Access, a new set of cloud-delivered security services from Cisco. We discuss the security capabilities on offer, the service's architecture and components, how Cisco addresses concerns around user experience and performance, and more. This is a sponsored episode.
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Day Two Cloud 204: Deploying Cloud-Delivered Security With Cisco Secure Access (Sponsored)
On today's Day Two Cloud we get inside Cisco Secure Access, a new set of cloud-delivered security services from Cisco. We discuss the security capabilities on offer, the service's architecture and components, how Cisco addresses concerns around user experience and performance, and more. This is a sponsored episode.2023 IT Pay Holds Steady Despite Economic Pressures and AI Boom
2022 was a boon year for IT salaries. 2023 came in like a beast with layoffs, raise freezes, and ChatGPT, but that beast has few teeth.6 Best Practices for Data Security Posture Management (DSPM)
DSPM can greatly enhance an enterprise’s cyber defenses and proactively protect its sensitive data against unauthorized access and other types of data breaches.SD-WAN Deployment Failures 101: Lessons From The Field
SD-WAN is a cost-effective, flexible alternative to traditional MPLS networks, but the high rate of failed deployments indicates that achieving successful implementation is not straightforward. Organizations must be prepared to embrace new experience-driven approaches to network management, such as the need for visibility into unmanaged networks, to deploy SD-WAN effectively.
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Heavy Wireless 007: Why Networking And Security Convergence Is Important For Wireless Pros (Sponsored)
Wireless pros sit at the intersection of networking and security. On today's Heavy Wireless, sponsored by Fortinet, Keith Parsons and guest Ben Wilson discuss this convergence, why visibility into the WLAN and device identity are essential, how Fortinet integrates its Fortigate firewalls with wired and wireless neteworks for unified management and policy enforcement, and more.
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