CEO Succession at the Internet Society – Status update (Feb 2018)

This is a status update on where we are in the CEO search process. In my last note to the community, I explained that we were finishing the selection of a search firm to support us during the process and that we were planning to launch an open call for candidates in February.

After issuing an RFP and conducting a set of interviews with several firms, the CEO Search Committee selected a search firm. The selected firm is Perrett Laver.

Based on, among other things, all the community feedback we have received on the following email address (you can still send your input to that address), the CEO Search Committee has developed a draft job description:

[email protected]

In order to refine the job description and to make sure we gather all the input we need, the search firm is going to conduct informational interviews with the leadership of our communities. Accordingly, they are going to interview the chairs of the OMAC (Organization Advisory Council), the ChAC (Chapters Advisory Council), and the IETF (the chairs of the IAB and the IAOC will also be interviewed). ISOC’s executive team (staff) will also be interviewed. You can also talk with Continue reading

The New HPE Sheriff Lays Down The Hybrid IT Law

There is a new sheriff in town at Hewlett Packard Enterprise – that would be chief executive officer Antonio Neri – and that means a new way of looking at the books and therefore steering the business. No, we didn’t mean that the other way around.

In opening up its books for the first quarter of its fiscal 2018 year, which ended in January, we can see some important things about HPE’s business, and at the same time, we have lost some visibility about core parts of its business.

First of all, the books have been reclassified significantly in the …

The New HPE Sheriff Lays Down The Hybrid IT Law was written by Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Next Platform.

Startup Concertio offers AI-optimized server configuration

For about as long as there has been personal computers, there has been an aftermarket of system optimization software. Even MS-DOS, which was about as basic as an operating system gets, had QEMM to get the most out of your 640K of memory. These days, there is a healthy market of Windows optimization utilities to speed up your PC.For servers, though, it gets a little more complicated. Actually, it gets very complicated. Not only does each server have to operate at peak efficiency on its own, but it then has to interact with the network, with other servers, and potentially with a public cloud service provider.Also on Network World: What will AI mean to the traditional data center? And usage models change over time. There might be peak use times when certain processes are not run, such as backups, and slow times of day when other tasks can be run. So an optimal configuration at one point in the day is not optimal at a different time of the day.To read this article in full, please click here

Startup Concertio offers AI-optimized server configuration

For about as long as there has been personal computers, there has been an aftermarket of system optimization software. Even MS-DOS, which was about as basic as an operating system gets, had QEMM to get the most out of your 640K of memory. These days, there is a healthy market of Windows optimization utilities to speed up your PC.For servers, though, it gets a little more complicated. Actually, it gets very complicated. Not only does each server have to operate at peak efficiency on its own, but it then has to interact with the network, with other servers, and potentially with a public cloud service provider.Also on Network World: What will AI mean to the traditional data center? And usage models change over time. There might be peak use times when certain processes are not run, such as backups, and slow times of day when other tasks can be run. So an optimal configuration at one point in the day is not optimal at a different time of the day.To read this article in full, please click here

Getting Started: Using New Kerberos Feature in Ansible Tower

Getting Started Kerberos

Welcome to another post in our Getting Started series. In our previous post, we discussed how you can set up and use LDAP in your Red Hat Ansible Tower instance. In this post we are going to discuss a new feature in regard to Windows authentication with Kerberos. Before we get started, please note that these changes will not affect the current configuration you are using if you have previously used Kerberos with Ansible Tower. Your setup should function the same way as before.

Using Kerberos to Connect to Windows

Using Kerberos with Ansible and Ansible Tower to connect to your Windows hosts before the release of Ansible 2.3 required some prior scaffolding tasks be set up before you were able to fully use it. The necessary packages for Kerberos are still required to be on the machine that Ansible Tower is installed on. The documentation on the required materials and configuration changes can be found here if you are just starting out or need a refresher.

The main change that comes to using Kerberos with Ansible and Ansble Tower is how Ansible manages Kerberos “tokens” or “tickets." Ansible Tower defaults to automatically managing Kerberos tickets (as Continue reading

International Cooperation Needed to Create an “Increasingly Beneficial Internet”

New norms of behavior are needed for Internet users, and it’s time for governments, companies, other organizations, and individuals to work together to define those standards, Internet advocates say.

Even as the Internet gives more and more people new ways to express themselves and improve their standard of living, it also creates problems that demand international and multistakeholder cooperation, speakers at the Global Internet and Jurisdiction Conference 2018 in Ottawa, Canada, said Monday.

The Internet has driven forward the ideas of globalization and equal opportunity for everyone, but technological advances have also created complexity that many people weren’t prepared for, said Kathy Brown, president and CEO of Internet Society.

“We now face enormous challenges as the pace of change has accelerated faster than did our human institutions, societal and existing global agreements,” she said during the first day of the conference.

Many governments have looked toward heavy regulation and censorship as a way to deal with this complex environment, Brown added.

Governments in some countries “are doubling down on what they know how to do — shut it down, shut it off, censor users, regulate creators,” she added. “The global Internet community, itself, is in danger of splintering into predictable commercial, Continue reading

Memcrashed – Major amplification attacks from UDP port 11211

Memcrashed - Major amplification attacks from UDP port 11211

Memcrashed - Major amplification attacks from UDP port 11211CC BY-SA 2.0 image by David Trawin

Over last couple of days we've seen a big increase in an obscure amplification attack vector - using the memcached protocol, coming from UDP port 11211.

In the past, we have talked a lot about amplification attacks happening on the internet. Our most recent two blog posts on this subject were:

The general idea behind all amplification attacks is the same. An IP-spoofing capable attacker sends forged requests to a vulnerable UDP server. The UDP server, not knowing the request is forged, politely prepares the response. The problem happens when thousands of responses are delivered to an unsuspecting target host, overwhelming its resources - most typically the network itself.

Memcrashed - Major amplification attacks from UDP port 11211

Amplification attacks are effective, because often the response packets are much larger than the request packets. A carefully prepared technique allows an attacker with limited IP spoofing capacity (such as 1Gbps) to launch very large attacks (reaching 100s Gbps) "amplifying" the attacker's bandwidth.

Memcrashed

Obscure amplification attacks happen all the time. We often see "chargen" or "call Continue reading

IDG Contributor Network: What does SD-Branch mean for security, storage and IoT?

We’ve started to hear a lot about SD-Branch as a natural successor to SD-WAN, which makes sense as the centrally-orchestrated model is attractive to many enterprises. However, just as we saw with SD-WAN, the term “SD-Branch” is being adopted by many different vendors and service providers to mean what they want, in the absence of any “official” definition.What is SD-Branch anyway? Based on most definitions, SD-Branch means delivering more IT infrastructure to branches under a programmable, centrally orchestrated model. Think of it as “SD-WAN plus” – just as you can create templates or profiles in an SD-WAN network, an entire branch template could be generated that defines how the LAN is configured, what wireless LANs are used, how they integrate with the WAN, and what additional compute-based services need to be deployed at the branch.To read this article in full, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: What does SD-Branch mean for security, storage and IoT?

We’ve started to hear a lot about SD-Branch as a natural successor to SD-WAN, which makes sense as the centrally-orchestrated model is attractive to many enterprises. However, just as we saw with SD-WAN, the term “SD-Branch” is being adopted by many different vendors and service providers to mean what they want, in the absence of any “official” definition.What is SD-Branch anyway? Based on most definitions, SD-Branch means delivering more IT infrastructure to branches under a programmable, centrally orchestrated model. Think of it as “SD-WAN plus” – just as you can create templates or profiles in an SD-WAN network, an entire branch template could be generated that defines how the LAN is configured, what wireless LANs are used, how they integrate with the WAN, and what additional compute-based services need to be deployed at the branch.To read this article in full, please click here

Containers Vs. PaaS: A Tough Choice

What abstraction layer should IT infrastructure teams provide developers? Containers or Platform-as-a-Service solutions like Cloud Foundry? The question is a difficult one to answer, as Keith Townsend, principal at The CTO Advisor and Interop ITX infrastructure chair, explains in this video.

Getting the most out of your next-generation firewall

Are you getting the most out of your next-generation firewall? Probably not if you take to heart recent research from SafeBreach.SafeBreach, a relative newcomer to the security arena — it was founded in 2014 — sells premise and service packages that continually run network breach simulations that help customers locate and remediate security problems.RELATED: What is microsegmentation? How getting granular improves network security Illumio extends its segmentation to the network and cloud Specifically the company deploys software probes distributed throughout customers’ networks, and attempts to establish connections among devices and network segments just as a hacker would do in attacking your data. These breach attempts are defined by SafeBreach’s Hacker’s Playbook, a library of known attack methods that uncover network security weaknesses and how these vulnerabilities might be exploited.To read this article in full, please click here

Getting the most out of your next-generation firewall

Are you getting the most out of your next-generation firewall? Probably not if you take to heart recent research from SafeBreach.SafeBreach, a relative newcomer to the security arena — it was founded in 2014 — sells premise and service packages that continually run network breach simulations that help customers locate and remediate security problems.RELATED: What is microsegmentation? How getting granular improves network security Illumio extends its segmentation to the network and cloud Specifically the company deploys software probes distributed throughout customers’ networks, and attempts to establish connections among devices and network segments just as a hacker would do in attacking your data. These breach attempts are defined by SafeBreach’s Hacker’s Playbook, a library of known attack methods that uncover network security weaknesses and how these vulnerabilities might be exploited.To read this article in full, please click here

Getting the most out of your next generation firewall

Are you getting the most out of your next generation firewall? Probably not if you take to heart recent research from SafeBreach.SafeBreach, a relative newcomer to the security arena -- it was founded in 2014 -- sells premise and service packages that continually run network breach simulations that help customers locate and remediate security problems.RELATED: What is microsegmentation? How getting granular improves network security Illumio extends its segmentation to the network and cloud Specifically the company deploys software probes distributed throughout customers’ networks, and attempts to establish connections among devices and network segments just as a hacker would do in attacking your data.  These breach attempts are defined by SafeBreach’s Hacker’s Playbook, a library of known attack methods that uncover network security weaknesses and how these vulnerabilities might be exploited.To read this article in full, please click here

Getting the most out of your next generation firewall

Are you getting the most out of your next generation firewall? Probably not if you take to heart recent research from SafeBreach.SafeBreach, a relative newcomer to the security arena -- it was founded in 2014 -- sells premise and service packages that continually run network breach simulations that help customers locate and remediate security problems.RELATED: What is microsegmentation? How getting granular improves network security Illumio extends its segmentation to the network and cloud Specifically the company deploys software probes distributed throughout customers’ networks, and attempts to establish connections among devices and network segments just as a hacker would do in attacking your data.  These breach attempts are defined by SafeBreach’s Hacker’s Playbook, a library of known attack methods that uncover network security weaknesses and how these vulnerabilities might be exploited.To read this article in full, please click here

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