Inside Dyn Research: North Korea
Last week I published a blog that discussed the role Dyn has played in major international news stories. This week I’ve decided to pull back the curtain a bit and give you an in-depth look into how something like this goes down.
This past month you may have read in publications like Vice, NBC or Bloomberg about a Facebook clone operating out of North Korea. You may have also noticed that it was our research team that first discovered this. Finally, you probably asked: how did they see this and why does Dyn care about Kim Jong-un and social networks?
I can answer the latter question first. At Dyn we are passionate about the performance of the internet. We believe the internet is a tool with unlimited potential. What is fascinating though is that it is a flawed tool. The internet by its very nature is volatile. There are outages and threats happening every day. It is up to the companies who want to use this tool to understand this volatility and prepare for it. At Dyn we believe with the right Internet Performance Management strategy you can own the Internet.
But to do that you must know the issues. Continue reading