I admit that I’m thrifty and hate “premium brand” prices; many of us do. I just can’t justify paying a higher price purely because of the popularity of the logo and nothing else. That said, I do value great quality. I will pay a premium for a well-crafted, well-engineered product…
Last week AWS experienced an eight-hour outage caused from a DDoS attack impacting the cloud provider’s Router 53 DNS web service. As discussed in a previous post, Catchpoint detected the incident five hours before AWS acknowledged the problem. This isn’t the first—nor will it be the last—time an AWS outage…
This blog is the fifth and final installment of a 5-part blog series about the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). You can download the full series in The Comprehensive Guide to BGP, or view individual installments below. Part 1: Happy Birthday to BGP, a Pillar of the Modern InternetPart 2: X-Raying BGPPart…
This blog is the fourth installment of a 5-part blog series about the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). You can download the full series in The Comprehensive Guide to BGP, or view individual installments below. Part 1: Happy Birthday to BGP, a Pillar of the Modern InternetPart 2: X-Raying BGPPart 3:…
Cybersecurity has always been the Achilles heel of the digital world. Digital security protocols, firewalls, and advanced authentication methods have improved and tightened internet security, but even with all these measures in place, cyberattacks are inevitable. You can only mitigate the impact and prevent any major compromise before it turns…
This blog is the third installment of a 5-part blog series about the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). You can download the full series in The Comprehensive Guide to BGP, or view individual installments below. Part 1: Happy Birthday to BGP, a Pillar of the Modern InternetPart 2: X-Raying BGPPart 4:…
This blog is the second installment of a 5-part blog series about the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). You can download the full series in The Comprehensive Guide to BGP, or view individual installments below. Part 1: Happy Birthday to BGP, a Pillar of the Modern InternetPart 3: BGP and Your…
This blog is the first installment of a 5-part blog series about the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP). You can download the full series in The Comprehensive Guide to BGP, or view individual installments below. Part 2: X-Raying BGPPart 3: BGP and Your Brand’s Bottom LinePart 4: How BGP Routing Really…
Network engineering and operations teams are currently faced with a paradoxical dilemma. On the one hand, the capabilities for delivering content and services to end users are more robust and diverse than ever thanks to the explosion of third-party infrastructure and services. The adoption of new IT architectural structures such…
As we look ahead to the 2020 presidential campaign, I find myself looking back to previous campaigns to help make sense of these unusual political times; for some reason the 1992 presidential campaign springs to mind (go ahead and analyze why if you want). Who can forget the famous phrase…
