AfPIF 2019 Kicks Off in Balaclava, Mauritius
The tenth meeting of Africa Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF) kicked off in Balaclava, Mauritius, with participants celebrating the achievements and looking forward to further collaboration.
Andrew Sullivan, the President and CEO of the Internet Society, opened by highlighting the importance of the meeting, which helps create a community that supports the growth of the Internet in Africa, identifies challenges, and ensures that understanding spreads.
In his speech, he noted that traffic exchanged inside Africa has expanded enormously as a result of the work done by AfPIF over the years. One of AfPIF goals is to increase the level of local content exchanged locally to 80% by 2020.
Sullivan, who has extensive experience working with international Internet bodies, emphasized the need for a robust community in Africa, led by Af-IX, that will continue working together to ensure that the Internet is built in Africa, according to the needs of Africans and the African network experience.
The annual meeting, brings together chief technology officers, peering coordinators and business development managers from the African region, Internet service providers and operators, telecommunications policymakers and regulators, content providers, Internet exchange point (IXP) operators, infrastructure providers, data center managers, National Research and Education Networks (NRENs), Continue reading
FCC Issues Scathing Report on 37-Hour CenturyLink Outage
CenturyLink's network outage impacted as many as 22 million customers across 39 states, and at...
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The Tale of the Mysterious Traceroute
If you follow me on Twitter ( https://twitter.com/danieldibswe), you know I have been doing a lot of SD-WAN lately and I recently built my own lab. In this lab, I wanted to try a feature known as service chaining. What is service chaining? It’s a method of sending traffic through one or more services, such as a firewall, before the traffic takes the “normal” path towards its destination.
Before we dive deeper in, let me show the topology in use:
When I tested this feature, the data plane was working perfectly but my traceroute looked very strange. The traceroute was also not finishing.
root@B1-S1:/# traceroute 10.1.2.10 traceroute to 10.1.2.10 (10.1.2.10), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets 1 10.1.1.1 (10.1.1.1) 6.951 ms 36.355 ms 39.604 ms 2 10.1.0.2 (10.1.0.2) 11.775 ms 15.047 ms 15.535 ms 3 10.0.0.18 (10.0.0.18) 28.540 ms 28.538 ms 28.532 ms 4 10.1.2.10 (10.1.2.10) 41.748 ms 41.746 ms 41.736 Continue reading
Cybersecurity Tech Accord Adopts Bug Disclosure Policies
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Network Equipment Market Positioned for Five Years of Growth
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Deep Dive: How Healthcare Organizations Practice Privacy and Security
In April, the Online Trust Alliance published the 11th annual Online Trust Audit assessing the security and privacy of 1,200 top organizations across several industry sectors. For the first time, this year’s Audit covered 100 of the top healthcare organizations, including lab testing companies, pharmacies, hospital chains, and insurance providers.
How did they do?
Since this is the first year these organizations were included, we do not have historical comparisons, but we can compare how healthcare sites fared against the other audited sectors. Overall, 57% of healthcare sites made this year’s Honor Roll, the lowest of all the sectors we studied. By far the most common reason for failure in the healthcare sector was weak email security (35%, nearly triple the overall average). Failure due to privacy was better than average, while failure due to site security was slightly worse than average.
Email Security
SPF and DKIM help protect against forged email. Overall 87% of healthcare organizations had SPF on their top-level domain and 67% had DKIM (the lowest of any sector, and the main source of healthcare’s failing scores). DMARC builds on SPF and DKIM results, provides a means for feedback reports, and adds visibility for Continue reading
Druva Adds Smart Storage Tiering, Disaster Recovery
Druva added two new cloud services: a multi-tier intelligent data storage technology for AWS and...
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DDoS Mitigation and BGP Flowspec
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AWS ABCs: Granting A Third-Party Access to Your Account
There can be times when you’re working on the AWS Cloud where you need to grant limited access to your account to a third-party. For example:
- A contractor or a specialist needs to perform some work on your behalf
- You’re having AWS Professional Services or a partner from the Amazon Partner Network do some work in your account
- You’re conducting a pilot with AWS and you want your friendly neighborhood Solutions Architect to review something
In each of these cases you likely want to grant the permissions the third-party needs but no more. In other words, no granting of AdministratorAccess policies because it’s easy and just works. Instead, adherence to the principle of least privilege.
This post will describe two methods–IAM users and IAM roles–for proving limited access to third-parties.
Comparing the Two Approaches
The big difference with the IAM user approach vs the role-based approach is the way the credentials for each entity are handed out.
IAM users have long-term credentials that only change by a manual action (either the user or an administrator changes the credentials). Those credentials will continue to provide access to the account until they’re either changed or the user is disabled/deleted.
By contrast, roles Continue reading
The First Networking Fundamentals Videos are Online
In mid-June I started another pet project - a series of webinars focused on networking fundamentals. In the first live session on June 18th we focused on identifying the challenges one has to solve when building an end-to-end networking solution, and the role of layered approach to networking.
Not surprisingly, we quickly went down the rabbit holes of computer networking history, including SCSI cables, serial connections and modems… but that’s where it all started, and some of the concepts developed at that time are still used today… oftentimes heavily morphed by recursive application of RFC 1925 Rule 11.
Read more ...VMworld 2019: Sneak Peak at Our Keynote Sessions. Plus a Chance to Win!
Networking & Security Keynotes at VMworld 2019
About a month ago, we published a VMworld security guide with shortlisted 100 to 300 level sessions that best illustrate real-world application of our products. This time, we’ll be focusing on two networking and security keynotes. The first keynote will highlight how VMware’s single-stack, complete networking and security platform can achieve a consistent operational network fabric for hybrid cloud environments, and the second keynote will focus on how users can leverage existing VMware infrastructure to implement a more effective, intrinsic security.
In addition, you will have a shot at winning Bose headphones simply by attending each event. Although chances are slim (1250 times harder to win both as opposed to just one), duplicate winners will be acknowledged so if you are looking for a present for yourself and a significant other, make sure to register and save on your yearly bonus! Winners will be announced at the end of each keynote, so make sure to stay until the end!
Showcase Keynote: Networking and Security for the Cloud Era [NETS3413KU]
There has never been a more exciting and challenging time in the networking space. As the cloud, application developers, IoT, Continue reading
AWS ABCs: Granting A Third-Party Access to Your Account
There can be times when you're working on the AWS Cloud where you need to grant limited access to your account to a third-party. For example:
- A contractor or a specialist needs to perform some work on your behalf
- You're having AWS Professional Services or a partner from the Amazon Partner Network do some work in your account
- You're conducting a pilot with AWS and you want your friendly neighborhood Solutions Architect to review something
In each of these cases you likely want to grant the permissions the third-party needs but no more. In other words, no granting of AdministratorAccess policies because it's easy and just works. Instead, adherence to the principle of least privilege.
This post will describe two methods—IAM users and IAM roles—for proving limited access to third-parties.
Live Preview: Build and Test Workers Faster with Wrangler CLI 1.2.0
As part of my internship on the Workers Developer Experience team, I set out to polish the Wrangler CLI for Cloudflare Workers. If you're not familiar with Workers, the premise is quite simple: Write a bit of Javascript that takes in an HTTP request, does some processing, and spits out a response. The magic lies in where your Workers scripts run: on Cloudflare's edge network, which spans 193 cities in more than 90 countries. Workers can be used for nearly anything from configuring Cloudflare caching behavior to building entire serverless web applications. And, you don't have to worry about operations at all.
I was excited to focus on Wrangler, because Wrangler aims to make developing and publishing Workers projects a pleasant experience for everyone, whether you're a solo dev working on the next big thing, or an engineer at a Fortune 100 enterprise. The whole point of serverless is about reducing friction, and Wrangler reflects that ethos.
However, when I started at Cloudflare in early June, some parts of the development experience still needed some love. While working on a new WASM tutorial for the Workers documentation, I noticed a storm brewing in my browser…
Wrangler lets you test your Continue reading