BrandPost: From Autonomous to Adaptive: The Next Evolution in Networking

There have been many discussions about how to eliminate manual, labor-intensive network operations and the industry is using a wide set of terminology to describe the future lean and automated network operations, such as ‘intelligent’, ‘cognitive’ or ‘self-driving.’ Network providers are now able to rethink their operations with artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics to achieve their long-desired goal of end-to-end automation, but most of them don’t want to cede control to networks that decide their own direction and remove humans from the equation altogether. They want their networks and operations to become more ‘adaptive’ to thrive in an ever-changing competitive landscape and to meet consumer demands, which requires a coherent combination of human-controlled-and-supervised, analytics-driven intelligence, software controlled and automated operational processes and an underlying programmable infrastructure (see Figure 1).To read this article in full, please click here

IBM Cloud, Now Powered by Cloudflare

IBM Cloud, Now Powered by Cloudflare

IBM Cloud, Now Powered by Cloudflare

A Tale of Two New Relationships

Late last spring, we were seeking to expand our connections inside of IBM. IBM had first become a direct Cloudflare customer in 2016, when its X-force Exchange business selected Cloudflare, instead of traditional scrubbing center solutions, for DDoS protection, WAF, and Load Balancing. We had friendly relationships with several people inside of IBM’s Softlayer business. We learned that the IBM “Networking Tribe” was evaluating various solutions to fill product gaps that their cloud customers were experiencing for DDoS, DNS, WAF, and load balancing.

In trying to engage with the people leading the effort, I made a casual phone call late on a Friday afternoon to one of the IBMers based in Raleigh, NC. When he understood that I was from Cloudflare, he replied, “Oh, I know Cloudflare. You guys do DDoS protection, right?” I replied, “Well, yes, we do offer DDoS protection, but we also offer a number of other security and performance services.” He indicated that he would be in the Bay Area two weeks later, and that he would bring his team to our office if we could make the time.

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Rough Guide to IETF 101: IPv6

In this post for the Internet Society Rough Guide to IETF 101, I’m reviewing what’ll be happening at the IETF in London next week.
IPv6 global adoption rates continue to rise (to approximately 22% according to Google), although at a slightly slower overall rate since the last IETF. Nevertheless, there’s still substantial growth in IPv6 capability in large markets such as the United States, India and Germany, with Belgium still leading the world. There has also been significant progress in Greece, Brazil, Malaysia, Finland, Switzerland and Uruguay recently, whilst Japan, the UK and France continue to show consistent growth. The amounts of native IPv6 traffic seen on the Internet still does not entirely reflect global IPv6 capabilities, but with most major content and cloud providers now supporting IPv6, and mobile networks increasingly preferring IPv6, this gap will continue to close.
IPv6 is an important focus for the IETF, particularly with respect to the standardisation work related to the Internet-of-Things. And it’s straight into the IPv6 work on Monday, with both the IPv6 Operations (v6ops) and IPv6 Maintenance (6man) Working Groups being held that day, along with three other IoT-related Working Groups.
The IPv6 Operations (v6ops) Working Group is Continue reading

The internet of useful things

The industrial internet of things is growingImage by Peter Sayer/IDGWhen we talk about the internet of things, consumer applications too often get the lion’s share of the attention. But there are also a growing number of industrial applications for IoT technologies, from building better mousetraps to preventing theft of manhole covers.To read this article in full, please click here

The internet of useful things

The industrial internet of things is growingImage by Peter Sayer/IDGWhen we talk about the internet of things, consumer applications too often get the lion’s share of the attention. But there are also a growing number of industrial applications for IoT technologies, from building better mousetraps to preventing theft of manhole covers.To read this article in full, please click here

I Can’t Choose the Gear for You

One of my readers sent me a question along these lines after reading the anti-automation blog post:

Your blog post has me worried as we're currently reviewing offers for NGFW solution... I understand the need to keep the lid on the details rather than name and shame, but is it possible to get the details off the record?

I always believed in giving my readers enough information to solve their challenges on their own (you know, the Teach a man to fish idea).

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Check Out Our Newest Addition to The INE Library: OSCP Security Technology Course

The OSCP Security Technology course is for those interested in learning advanced ethical hacking and penetration testing. This course is designed to prepare students to for the Penetration Testing with Kali (PWK) course offered by Offensive Security. The PWK course is a prerequisite to the Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) exam. Students should be familiar with Linux command line, Bash and Python scripting, and basic networking concepts before attempting the course.


 

This Course is 9 hours and 22 minutes long and taught by Heath Adams. You can view the full OSCP course on our streaming site.

About The Instructor:

Heath Adams is a cybersecurity professional. He currently holds the OSCP, OSWP, CEH, CCNA, Security+, Linux+, Network+, and A+ certifications. When he is not developing courses with INE, he spends his work life as a senior network engineer with a national lab in the United States. He is also currently an Army Officer in the Reserves.

In his free time, Heath enjoys spending time with his fiance and their 4 animal children. He enjoys playing video games, running, playing the guitar, watching sports, and binge-watching more TV shows than he should admit.

IDG Contributor Network: Disposable IoT ready to open new opportunities

The Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed how industries operate and how people interact with one another. We have seen an impressive array of new IoT deployments from an explosion of smart city applications across the U.S., to sensors implanted in the horns of critically-endangered rhinos in Africa. The evolution of IoT has connected devices at record speed and provided useful business intelligence to solve complex, real-world problems.IoT devices outnumbered the world’s population for the first time this year. In a recent report, worldwide spending for IoT in 2017 is estimated to have grown 16.7% reaching $800 billion with an expected total of $1.4 trillion per year by 2021. The proliferation of IoT devices can be attributed to the fact that it is now much cheaper and easier to gather information from sensors.To read this article in full, please click here

Big trouble down on the IoT farm

You would think that modern farms would be fertile ground for the Internet of Things (IoT). And in many ways, you’d be right: Smart tractors and other farm equipment, coupled with GPS-equipped smart sensors tracking everything temperature to moisture to soil acidity, mean the IoT can help today’s high-tech farmers plant and harvest more efficiently than ever before.Who benefits from IoT on the farm? But if you believe a recent expose in Motherboard, all is not well down on the IoT farm. It turns out that many of the benefits of IoT — and the big data it generates — in agriculture fall not to the farmers, but to the so-called BigAg equipment makers and seed and fertilizer companies.To read this article in full, please click here

Teaching Sri Lankan Girls How to Code

Girls in Technology is a community-based initiative to help increase schoolgirls’ participation in emerging Internet technology careers. The pilot project, lead by the Internet Society Sri Lanka Chapter and supported by Beyond the Net Funding Programme, will provide grade 9 girls with coding lessons and extracurricular activities to help them select ICT subjects at grade 10. Niranjan Meegammana, project leader and director of the Shilpa Sayura Foundation, explains how this initiative will contribute to gender equality in STEM education and help the young women reach for the stars.

Internet Society: What motivated the Chapter to take this initiative?

Niranjan Meegammana: Sri Lanka is fast becoming a hub for technology and innovation, offering a wide range of careers in technology fields. However, girls pursuing a career in technology still remain a limited number. Girls are representing 50.28% of school population, but only 20% are actually studying ICT. The gender gap keeps on growing and generating a labor surplus. The root cause of this problem is the scarcity of opportunities for girls and teachers in the Internet sector.

Which innovative solutions will the project attempt to solve this problem?

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