Google, VMware Headline Linux Foundation’s ACT Program
The program is looking to manage the responsibility and investment challenges facing open source...
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SASE: Here’s Where Your Digital Business Network Starts
SASE is emerging in response to the needs of today’s digital business. The digital business is...
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SolarWinds Sweeps Up VividCortex for $117.5M
The VividCortex acquisition better positions SolaWinds against competitors including Cisco, Aruba,...
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Fortinet Snaps Up SOAR Provider CyberSponse
CyberSponse's feature set will further extend the automation and incident response capabilities of...
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Nokia 5G Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Plans Gain Dynamics
Nokia doesn’t expect the technology to deliver meaningful performance gains on 5G standalone...
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Google’s New VMs Use Dynamic Resource Management to Slash Costs
This includes a custom-built CPU scheduler and performance-aware live migration to make better use...
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Celebrating a Successful Chapterthon 2019!
We are incredibly inspired by the collaborative projects brought to life by our Chapters for the 2019 Chapterthon, the global contest in which Internet Society Chapters develop a project within a set timeline and budget to achieve a common goal for the development of the Internet. This year’s theme was “Connecting the Unconnected” – because every last person on the planet is part of having an Internet for “everyone”, and we won’t rest until each person has the option of choosing to be connected.
Internet Society Chapters from all corners of the world developed innovative solutions that will continue to serve as inspiration for communities everywhere working to connect the unconnected. At the end of the contest, each project presented a three-minute video about the project specifics and its benefits to the community. Winning projects received a prize.
See how they addressed this global issue through local community initiatives!
Announcing the Winners!
1st Prize (USD 3000)
US New York Chapter
First Annual NYC Mesh Installathon: This project aims to mobilize a large team of volunteers on a single day to expand the NYC Mesh community network to at least six new locations, and connect underserved areas of New York City.
2nd Prize (USD 2000)
South Africa Chapter
Qokolweni Wi-fi Hotspots: This Continue reading
Asset Inventories
How do you know what you need to apply your PCI DSS controls to? Simple, you check your asset inventory. You do have one, right? You know, PCI DSS requirement 2.4? Oh. You haven’t got one, have you.
Never fear, creating one is relatively simple providing you know your scope. Creating the asset inventory is really just a case of listing all the components that are in-scope for you. What should you include though?
Well, all system components so that’s things like network devices, firewalls, servers, desktops, laptops, wireless access points (important enough they get their own requirement, 11.1.1) and POI machines. You should also include at least key software that is used within your environment (think operating systems, payment applications, server software etc.)
You also need to include enough information to satisfy PCI DSS so for each item that is:
- Enough information to uniquely identify the component (host…
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IPv6 Buzz 041: IPv4 Address Exhaustion And You!
The Regional Internet Registry for Europe (RIPE) recently announced its supply of public IPv4 addresses was officially depleted. In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, we discuss what that means and why it's impactful for companies everywhere. We also discuss the history of IPv4 address exhaustion and why IPv6 is key to avoiding or mitigating the negative effects.IPv6 Buzz 041: IPv4 Address Exhaustion And You!
The Regional Internet Registry for Europe (RIPE) recently announced its supply of public IPv4 addresses was officially depleted.
In today's IPv6 Buzz podcast, we discuss what that means and why it's impactful for companies everywhere. We also discuss the history of IPv4 address exhaustion and why IPv6 is key to avoiding or mitigating the negative effects.
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How we used our new GraphQL Analytics API to build Firewall Analytics
Firewall Analytics is the first product in the Cloudflare dashboard to utilize the new GraphQL Analytics API. All Cloudflare dashboard products are built using the same public APIs that we provide to our customers, allowing us to understand the challenges they face when interfacing with our APIs. This parity helps us build and shape our products, most recently the new GraphQL Analytics API that we’re thrilled to release today.
By defining the data we want, along with the response format, our GraphQL Analytics API has enabled us to prototype new functionality and iterate quickly from our beta user feedback. It is helping us deliver more insightful analytics tools within the Cloudflare dashboard to our customers.
Our user research and testing for Firewall Analytics surfaced common use cases in our customers' workflow:
- Identifying spikes in firewall activity over time
- Understanding the common attributes of threats
- Drilling down into granular details of an individual event to identify potential false positives
We can address all of these use cases using our new GraphQL Analytics API.
GraphQL Basics
Before we look into how to address each of these use cases, let's take a look at the format of a GraphQL query and how our Continue reading
Introducing the GraphQL Analytics API: exactly the data you need, all in one place
Today we’re excited to announce a powerful and flexible new way to explore your Cloudflare metrics and logs, with an API conforming to the industry-standard GraphQL specification. With our new GraphQL Analytics API, all of your performance, security, and reliability data is available from one endpoint, and you can select exactly what you need, whether it’s one metric for one domain or multiple metrics aggregated for all of your domains. You can ask questions like “How many cached bytes have been returned for these three domains?” Or, “How many requests have all the domains under my account received?” Or even, “What effect did changing my firewall rule an hour ago have on the responses my users were seeing?”
The GraphQL standard also has strong community resources, from extensive documentation to front-end clients, making it easy to start creating simple queries and progress to building your own sophisticated analytics dashboards.
From many APIs...
Providing insights has always been a core part of Cloudflare’s offering. After all, by using Cloudflare, you’re relying on us for key parts of your infrastructure, and so we need to make sure you have the data to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot your website, Continue reading
You Don’t Need IP Renumbering for Disaster Recovery
This is a common objection I get when trying to persuade network architects they don’t need stretched VLANs (and IP subnets) to implement data center disaster recovery:
Changing IP addresses when activating DR is hard. You’d have to weigh the manageability of stretching L2 and protecting it, with the added complexity of breaking the two sites into separate domains [and subnets]. We all have apps with hardcoded IP’s, outdated IPAM’s, Firewall rules that need updating, etc.
Let’s get one thing straight: when you’re doing disaster recovery there are no live subnets, IP addresses or anything else along those lines. The disaster has struck, and your data center infrastructure is gone.
Read more ...Day Two Cloud 027: Do Enterprises Need Kubernetes?
As an IT practitioner, do you actually need to know more about Kubernetes? Does Kubernetes and its ecosystem materially matter to your organization? Is K8s just stepping stone to more advanced technologies? We tackle these questions on today's episode of Day Two Cloud with guests Keith Townsend and Justin Warren.
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