Recent events involving CrowdStrike’s Falcon security software have underscored a critical lesson across the industry: the importance of having a robust, secure release process.
My analysis of the event has a lot of similarities with my reflections on the Optus outage last year, the incident underscores the critical issue of resilience in IT infrastructure, particularly in systems that lack diversity.
But recovery is just the beginning. What’s sure to follow is a barrage of regulatory oversight, hard feelings among the IT community, and a tough reminder that even a small slip-up in a software update can have catastrophic global consequences.
Over the years, there has been a lot of discussion on if VLAN 1 in Cisco switches is special or not. Does it have any characteristics that other VLANs donﾒt?
Are you considering the switch from network engineer to cloud engineer? This post wo’t teach you everything needed to become a cloud expert, but hopefully, it will create a level of comfort and familiarity such that you can start your journey to the cloud from here.
The creation of voluntary standards is an idea that may seem easier than imposing regulations. But devising voluntary standards presents unique challenges, different from those which arise in devising standards which can be imposed on developers. The AI community should take note.
The landscape for digital rights has evolved rapidly over the last 15 years, and will only continue to shift and stratify more quickly in the years ahead. Iﾒll start with some horizon-scanning, though it is far from comprehensive.
Our research team analyzed more than 21.5 million domains registered between 1 April and 30 June 2024, as seen in the Newly Registered Domains (NRDs) Data Feed. We detected that the number of NRDs slightly increased compared with the previous quarter, at 2.6%.
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released patches to address multiple security vulnerabilities in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9 Domain Name System (DNS) software suite that could be exploited to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.
Analysys Mason, an industry consulting firm in the U.K. recently wrote an interesting report looking at long-term capex spending for the telecom industry. The prediction looks at both broadband and wireless spending.
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