Worth Reading: Treat generative AI like a burning platform and secure it now

26 October 2023


In the rush to deploy generative AI, many organizations are sacrificing security in favor of innovation, IBM warns.

Worth Reading: Under the hood of fault tolerant private cloud network

26 October 2023


Routing, Elastic Load Balancing, Firewalling, NAT, DHCP, and VPN are the minimum network services required by private cloud.

Worth Reading: The ICANN Experiment–Lessons From NewCo

25 October 2023


As ICANN turns 25 and I turn 51, I realize that I have literally spent more than ½ of my life working in the domain name industry and with the first multistakeholder experiment originally called NewCo (later called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”).

Worth Reading: Cyber Independence

25 October 2023


There was a time, some decades ago now, when the Internet was seen as a novel space, unpopulated with the adornments of the physical world. Inhabitants of this new Cyberspace felt that they could define their own terms of engagement, equipped with an eloquent declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.

Worth Reading: Carrier Ethernet OAM

24 October 2023


For those new to it, Carrier Ethernet supports a variety of transport technologies including MPLS, SDH / DWDM, double-tagged Ethernet and so on, and selection of these will result in either additional service benefits or certain limitations.

Worth Reading: Connected Cars and the Privacy Debacle

24 October 2023


But they are also massive personal information collection engines, stockpiling information about you from your use of the car, the car’s app as well as 3rd party services such as Sirius XM or Google maps.

Worth Reading: Networking and security teams tasked to converge, collaborate

23 October 2023


Cloud computing, hybrid work, and remote connectivity are amplifying the need for networking and security teams to be in lockstep. Increasingly, enterprises are considering consolidating the two groups – or at least boosting collaboration between teams, according to research from Cato Networks.

Worth Reading: HTTP/2 Rapid Reset

19 October 2023


Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Cloudflare revealed this week that they battled massive, record-setting distributed denial of service attacks against their cloud infrastructure in August and September.

Worth Reading: Update on the Transport Market

19 October 2023


I took a look recently at the big carrier transport market. These are the carriers that make money transporting data around the country. When people ask who runs the Internet, it is these companies that carry data from point A to point B.