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The Hedge Podcast 037: Stephane Bortzmeyer and DNS Privacy

In this episode of the Hedge, Stephane Bortzmeyer joins Alvaro Retana and Russ White to discuss draft-ietf-dprive-rfc7626-bis, which “describes the privacy issues associated with the use of the DNS by Internet users.” Not many network engineers think about the privacy implications of DNS, a important part of the infrastructure we all rely on to make the Internet work.

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Red Hat Beams Quarkus Into Its Runtimes Middleware

Quarkus is a Kubernetes native Java framework that allows the programming language to be more...

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Cisco Licks Wounds, Targets Next Cloud Computing Wave

“It’s not a secret that we did not do as well as we wanted to in the first phase of the web...

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Fortinet Fortifies Hyrdo One’s SD-WAN Offering

The Toronto-based telecom claims the service will provide customers with tools to support both...

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Net One Systems Taps Juniper’s Contrail Enterprise Multicloud

The network integrator needed a services management platform that would allow it to configure...

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There’s No Duty of Care without Strong Encryption

On 15 May, the Telegraph reported that The Five Eyes intelligence alliance planned to meet to explore legal options to block plans to implement end-to-end encryption on Facebook Messenger. According to the UK-based newspaper, the discussions between the governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand would focus on how the “duty of care,” a basic concept found in tort law, could be stretched to force online platforms to remove or refrain from implementing end-to-end encryption. (A duty of care is the legal responsibility of a person or organization to avoid any behaviors or omissions that could reasonably be foreseen to cause harm to others.)

If this is true, this is an attempt to justify their calls for encryption backdoors.

It’s easy to predict what such a strategy might look like – the playbook is familiar. In this case, if duty of care becomes the rationale for banning end-to-end encryption, it could be used as a framework to ban future deployments. Additionally, similar to other legislation, including the Online Harms, there will be an argument that social media companies have a special duty of care to protect vulnerable groups. This is nothing more Continue reading

How to Use Migration Coordinator’s Automated Maintenance Mode

Migrate from VMware NSX for vSphere to NSX-T with Minimal Downtime

In order to help easily migrate from NSX for vSphere to NSX-T, with minimal downtime, the latest release of VMware NSX-T 3.0 introduces Maintenance Mode to NSX-T Migration Coordinator (a tool that has been built into NSX-T since the 2.4 release).  The Migration Coordinator tool is designed to run in-place on the same hardware that is running NSX for vSphere, and swap out NSX for vSphere bits with NSX-T.

This blog post is a follow up to the previous blog, Migration from VMware NSX for vSphere to NSX-T,  which covers Migration Coordinator. For more details on the Migration Process, please check out the previous blog.  This blog focuses on the Maintenance Mode feature which is part of the NSX-T 3.0 release.

What is Migration Coordinator?

Migration Coordinator is a tool that runs on NSX-T Manager. Its disabled by default since migrating from NSX for vSphere to NSX should only be a one-time task.

How to Enable Migration Coordinator

To enable Migration Coordinator, simply log in to NSX Manager via SSH and run the command “start service migration-coordinator”.

Enabling Migration Coordinator via SSH

 

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Top Tech Businesses for Sale for Young Entrepreneurs

If you are a young entrepreneur and have a bit of money that you want to invest in some tech businesses for sale, then here are the top 5 types of tech businesses that you may want to consider buying.

5 Types of Tech Businesses for Sale

Blog Consulting

With so many people these days looking for ways to work online, becoming a blogging expert is an advantage. That’s why buying a blog consulting business may be a great business for you. Blog consulting is one of the tech businesses for sale, and it is much easier to buy an existing business then to start a blog consulting business from scratch.

As a blog consultant, you may help different people set up and run their blogs. As your business grows, you can also farm out blog related projects to others and take a percentage of the proceeds for each job.

Social Media Consulting

A social media consulting business may be a great business to buy, especially if the business is already up and running and has several great consultants on staff. Social media consulting is big business these days and can cover everything from social media marketing to advising people Continue reading

Tanium’s endpoint security meets Cloudflare for Teams

Tanium’s endpoint security meets Cloudflare for Teams

When Cloudflare first launched in 2010, network security still relied heavily on physical security. To connect to a private network, most users simply needed to be inside the walls of the office. Once on that network, users could connect to corporate applications and infrastructure.

When users left the office, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) became a bandaid to let users connect back into that office network. Administrators poked holes in their firewall that allowed traffic to route back through headquarters. The backhaul degraded user experience and organizations had no visibility into patterns and events that occurred once users were on the network.

Cloudflare Access launched two years ago to replace that model with an identity-based solution built on Cloudflare’s global network. Instead of a private network, teams secure applications with Cloudflare’s network. Cloudflare checks every request to those applications for identity, rather than IP ranges, and accelerates those connections using the same network that powers some of the world’s largest web properties.

In this zero-trust model, Cloudflare Access checks identity on every request - not just the initial login to a VPN client. Administrators build rules that Cloudflare’s network continuously enforces. Each request is evaluated for permission and logged for Continue reading

Enterprises look to SASE to bolster security for remote workers

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated some companies' plans to adopt secure access service edge (SASE).Last summer, Gartner estimated SASE adoption at less than 1% of enterprises and said it would take five to 10 years before the technology reaches mainstream. But today, SASE is one of the main topics of client interest, according to Gartner analyst John Wheeler. READ MORE: How SD-WAN is evolving into Secure Access Service EdgeTo read this article in full, please click here

SASE could bolster security for remote workers

The coronavirus pandemic has accelerated some companies' plans to adopt secure access service edge (SASE).Last summer, Gartner estimated SASE adoption at less than 1% of enterprises and said it would take five to 10 years before the technology reaches mainstream. But today, SASE is one of the main topics of client interest, according to Gartner analyst John Wheeler. READ MORE: How SD-WAN is evolving into Secure Access Service EdgeTo read this article in full, please click here

Nokia Cries Foul on Rivals’ 800G Claims

"Carriers should expect 100-220 kilometer optical reach in most wave division multiplexing...

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Daily Roundup: IBM Slashes Jobs

IBM slashed thousands of jobs; Juniper claimed wins over Cisco; and Nokia made moves on Open RAN.

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Make Metadata Active Again

Metadata must move from laying dormant in a passive state and become active. Active metadata,...

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