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Deutsche Welle Spotlights Tanzania’s Kondoa Community Network

Nearly half of the world lacks Internet access. But in rural Africa, the number is much higher: 86% of people are unconnected, with fewer women having access than men.

Deutsche Welle, Germany’s public broadcaster, shares the story of the Kondoa Community Network, a joint project of the Internet Society Tanzania Chapter and the University of Dodoma, that’s helping to close the digital divide. It’s connecting schools and community centers – and making a difference to young women.

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Last year, Deutsche Welle profiled three additional community networks in Zimbabwe, the Republic of Georgia, and South Africa. Read about the community networks and listen to their stories!

The Internet is for everyone. Learn more about community networks and join the global movement to help close the digital divide!

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Last year review and resolutions for 2020

As the end of the year approaches, it is time to make a review of the past year and see what I would like to do, what I must do, and what I can improve in 2020. In brief, here’s my last year review and resolutions for 2020. 2019 Review New position This year was really intense for me; not only did I change company, but I also changed my main technology as a network engineer. I went from being a consultant in enterprise networking, doing routing, switching, wireless and…

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Heavy Networking 496: Packet Pushers 2019 Live Audience Q&A

The Packet Pushers hosted a livestream Q&A where a panel of commentators answered live audience questions. Topics covered include Cisco's new ASIC, whether multi-cloud will get its own hypervisor, a new Cisco certification path, and more.

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Enforcing Network Security Policies with GitOps – Part 1

“How do I enable GitOps for my network security policies?” This is a common question we hear from security teams. Getting started with Kubernetes is relatively simple, but moving production workloads to Kubernetes requires alignment from all stakeholders – developers, platform engineering, network engineering, and security.

Most security teams already have a high-level security blueprint for their data centers. The challenge is in implementing that in the context of a Kubernetes cluster and workload security. Network policy is a key element of Kubernetes security. Network policy is expressed as a YAML configuration and works very well with GitOps.

We will do a three-part blog series covering GitOps for network security policies. In part one (this part), we cover the overview and getting started with a working example tutorial. In part two, we will extend the tutorial to cover an enterprise-wide decentralized security architecture. In the final part, we will delve into policy assurance with examples.

Note that all policies in Calico Enterprise (network security policy, RBAC, threat detection, logging configuration, etc.) are enforced as YAML configuration files, and can be enforced via a GitOps practice.

By adopting GitOps, security teams benefit in the following ways:

• Take your policies Continue reading

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An Update on CDNJS

When you loaded this blog, a file was delivered to your browser called jquery-3.2.1.min.js. jQuery is a library which makes it easier to build websites, and was at one point included on as many as 74.1% of all websites. A full eighteen million sites include jQuery and other libraries using one of the most popular tools on Earth: CDNJS. Beginning about a month ago Cloudflare began to take a more active role in the operation of CDNJS. This post is here to tell you more about CDNJS’ history and explain why we are helping to manage CDNJS.

What CDNJS Does

Virtually every site is composed of not just the code written by its developers, but also dozens or hundreds of libraries. These libraries make it possible for websites to extend what a web browser can do on its own. For example, libraries can allow a site to include powerful data visualizations, respond to user input, or even get more performant.

These libraries created wondrous and magical new capabilities for web browsers, but they can also cause the size of a site to explode. Particularly a decade ago, connections were not always fast enough Continue reading

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Deep Dive: How the News and Media Sector Scores on Security and Privacy

In April 2019 the Internet Society’s Online Trust Alliance released its 10th annual Online Trust Audit & Honor Roll. The Audit looks at the security and privacy practices of over 1,000 of the top sites in various sectors. The news and and media sector, compromised of the top 100 news and media sites according to US traffic to their websites, improved its privacy practices in 2018. Like most sites, however, there is still room for improvement in privacy statements.

In 2017 less than half (48%) of news and media sites made the Honor Roll. In 2018 that number went up significantly to 78%, largely due to improvements in privacy statements. Privacy is scored in two ways in the Audit, we look at trackers on each site and we score the privacy statements across over 30 criteria.

One area where news sites did not improve was in the use of trackers on their site. Out of all the sectors news and media scored the lowest in trackers with a score of 39 (out of 45). Part of the reason for this is the news and media sector relies on advertising revenue, which often requires the use of trackers to serve ads.

On Continue reading

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5 questions to answer before deploying Wi-Fi 6

The Wi-FI 6 standard (802.11ax) is bringing many exciting improvements to Wi-Fi that make it an enticing option. These include speed, in the form of real-world multi-gigabit wireless connections, but also support for high-density networks like those in stadiums. However, it will take some careful thought and planning to know when to take the leap to Wi-Fi 6.To read this article in full, please click here(Insider Story)

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Bamboo Systems redesigns server motherboards for greater performance

UK chip designer Kaleao has re-launched as Bamboo Systems with some pre-Series A funding and claims its Arm-based server chips will be considerably more power efficient than the competition.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.] Bamboo is targeting the x86 servers, which have a 95% market share, rather than Marvell with its ThunderX2 and Ampere Systems with the eMAG Arm processors. The company argues that the two Arm processors are no different than x86.To read this article in full, please click here