NFV Popularity Makes MANO a Higher Priority
NFV popularity is forcing more companies to make MANO a higher priority so they can combat virtual server sprawl.
Tata Picks Versa for SD-WAN in its Global Network
The global carrier Tata is using Versa for one SD-WAN option.
A Very WebP New Year from Cloudflare
Cloudflare has an automatic image optimization feature called Polish, available to customers on paid plans. It recompresses images and removes unnecessary data so that they are delivered to browsers more quickly.
Up until now, Polish has not changed image types when optimizing (even if, for example, a PNG might sometimes have been smaller than the equivalent JPEG). But a new feature in Polish allows us to swap out an image for an equivalent image compressed using Google’s WebP format when the browser is capable of handling WebP and delivering that type of image would be quicker.
CC-BY 2.0 image by John Stratford
What is WebP?
The main image formats used on the web haven’t changed much since the early days (apart from the SVG vector format, PNG was the last one to establish itself, almost two decades ago).
WebP is a newer image format for the web, proposed by Google. It takes advantage of progress in image compression techniques since formats such as JPEG and PNG were designed. It is often able to compress the images into a significantly smaller amount of data than the older formats.
WebP is versatile and able to replace the three main Continue reading
What India’s Banking Industry Breach Can Teach Us About the Importance of Collaboration
Towards the end of October 2016, several Indian banks announced they would be recalling millions of debit cards in the wake of a data breach that affected the backend of software that powered an ATM network there.
It was a situation that could have been better mitigated; a government-sponsored organization tasked with sharing information about data breaches completely missed the warning signs that a breach was taking place. As a result, no one connected the dots until millions of fraud cases had been detected.
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I caught up with Geer for an update on his proposals, and his views on the current state of cybersecurity.
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Princeton’s “War of The Lights” – The Pitfalls of Enterprise-Level IoT Projects
The stadium lights ripped the darkness over an empty field.
They weren’t supposed to be on. The lights at Princeton University’s stadium, recently upgraded, should have followed an automated cycle, reducing the need for human oversight.
Instead, the lights went to war.
That’s how Jay Dominick, the vice president for information technology and the chief information officer for the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology at Princeton University, described to me what happened when I followed-up with him after he spoke at the Conference on Security and Privacy for the Internet of Things, held Oct. 16, 2016 at Princeton University.
Ann Miller
‘Security Fatigue’ Complicates the Battle Against Data Breaches
With the news of a second, even bigger hack of Yahoo user data, common sense might conclude that consumers would be scurrying to batten down their Internet hatches. But a new study indicates otherwise, concluding that “security fatigue" has made many of us numb to the dangers lurking in cyberspace.
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SD-WAN Needs to Iron Out Some Wrinkles
2016 was a big year for the nascent technology, but it’s raised some issues.
Storage Industry: 9 Hot Trends For 2017
Solid-state drives and other technologies will be game changers for storage next year.
New Study Reveals More Than 200 Mobile Sites/Apps are Exposing Sensitive Consumer Information
The Wandera 2017 Mobile Leak Report, a global analysis of almost 4 billion requests across hundreds of thousands of corporate devices, found more than 200 mobile websites and apps leaking personally identifiable information across a range of categories - including those that are essential for work.
Most notably, the study revealed:
Heidi Brandes