ADVA Drives Cloud-Native Encryption Into ConnectGuard Platform
The cloud-native update also bolsters the platform's ability to protect against the Spectre and Meltdown processor vulnerabilities.
CoreOS Is New Linux, Not A RHEL Classic Killer
One of the most important lessons in marketing is that you don’t change something that is working, but that you also have to be able to carefully and cautiously innovate to protect against changing tastes or practices that might also spell doom for the business.
Two and a half decades ago, Coca-Cola famously made a mistake in trying to push New Coke, a different formula that was sweeter and more like Pepsi, replacing the original Coke, which had to be brought back as Coke Classic and which, eventually, killed off New Coke completely. Coca-Cola was not just changing things for …
CoreOS Is New Linux, Not A RHEL Classic Killer was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.
HPE Buys Plexxi, Flexes Hyperconverged and Composable Muscles
Plexxi simultaneously announced updates to its hyperconverged software stack, building on its intent-based networking capabilities.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Scoops Up Plexxi
HPE says it will integrate SDN startup's technology into its hyperconverged and composable infrastructure product lines.
Adtran Shepherds Broadband Forum Project on Application-Level Testing
While Adtran has been working internally to build models for application-level testing, with Broadband Forum it can create a standards-based approach to the modeling.
Verizon to Migrate 1,000 Biz Apps and Backend Systems to AWS
The deal bolsters Verizon’s overall operations, but it also boosts AWS’ position among the country’s largest telecom operators.
Tap the Full Potential of Failsafe SD-WAN Q&A
Thanks to all who joined us for the Talari Networks DemoFriday, Tap the Full Potential of Failsafe SD-WAN. During the webinar, Talari Networks demonstrated the latest innovations, product feature updates and UI enhancements to its award-winning SD-WAN platform. After the demo, we took questions from the audience. Below is the full Tap the Full Potential of Failsafe SD-WAN Q&A.
T-Mobile: Not an All or Nothing When It Comes to vRAN
Virtualizing the RAN is a goal for operators but it won’t happen overnight.
Internet Companies Have More Work to Do on Privacy, Freedom of Expression, Report Says
Top Internet, mobile, and telecom companies across the globe still have many steps they could take to better protect their users’ freedom of expression and privacy, a new report says.
The 2018 Corporate Accountability Index, released recently by Ranking Digital Rights, gave Google a top score of 63 among 22 companies rated for protecting freedom of expression and privacy. But with a perfect score being 100, all the companies rated fell far short, with most receiving failing grades, the group said.
The good news for users is that 17 of the 22 companies evaluated for the 2018 Index improved scores from last year in at least one area, and many had improvements in multiple areas. Ranking Digital Rights, a nonprofit research center tied to the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, rates the companies on 35 indicators.
“We’ve seen some improvement, but there’s a long way to go,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, director of the Ranking Digital Rights project. “At the same time, some of the improvements we’ve seen have been genuinely meaningful.”
A second piece of good news for users: Some of the companies, particularly the rank-and-file employees, seem to pay attention to their rankings in consumer-focused studies, Continue reading
Will Intel White Box uCPE Pass Service Providers’ Taste Tests?
A handful of OEMs are already building products based on the new reference architecture for uCPE.
Encryption Isn’t Perfect, That’s Why Choices Are Important
Encryption is a critical building block for online trust, but it’s never perfect. Any encryption you use is the product of many steps. Encryption methods have to be defined; protocols for implementation have to be specified; and then the protocols have to be implemented. Each step is handled by different people and potentially introduces vulnerabilities along the way. Even with the best lock design in the world, if someone builds the lock with variations in the design (either intentionally or accidentally), it might be easily picked.
When you own a broken lock, you have it fixed or use a different one – encryption is no different.
Yesterday (14 May 2018), the Internet security community was alerted to newly discovered vulnerabilities in the secure email ecosystem, dubbed “EFAIL”. EFAIL can make the content of emails encrypted with PGP and S/MIME readable to an attacker. While there are some fixes users and companies can make to mitigate EFAIL, cases like this underscore the importance of choice when it comes to secure communications.
How does the EFAIL attack work?
EFAIL abuses a combination of vulnerabilities in the OpenPGP and S/MIME specifications and the way that many email clients render remote content in Continue reading