ADVANCED SOLUTIONS AGAINST DDoS (part II)

ADVANCED SOLUTIONS AGAINST DDoS (part II)

There are some advanced solutions to protect and mitigate our infrastructure against DDoS (denial of service attacks). Today, we are going to delve into them.     Before getting into the matter, we have to be aware of where we are with regard to denial of...
CGNAT in Operator (ISP)

CGNAT in Operator (ISP)

CGNAT is the acronym for Carrier Grade Network Address Translation, which translated to common language would be something similar to large-scale network address translation. Basically it is a technology, which today many Internet Service Providers use, and which...
Monitoring, SNMP protocol and its evolution

Monitoring, SNMP protocol and its evolution

To explain Network Monitoring, SNMP and its evolution, we have to go back a couple of decades ago, where the first data networks started to become popular and spread around the world. In these early days, a couple of administrators could manually maintain a...
DDoS-Distributed Denial of Service (part I)

DDoS-Distributed Denial of Service (part I)

A long time ago, when I heard for the first time in my life what had been one of the first denial of service attacks (DDoS), I was in a class on “networks”, when the teacher talked about ping of death, something that caught my attention and stayed with me. For those...
The colossal advance of IoT

The colossal advance of IoT

By 2020, around 21 billion “things” will be connected collecting data and performing all kind of tasks. From smart speakers, watches, door locks… to medical devices, motor sensors, industrial robots… It is the colossal advance of the IoT...
Moments of change

Moments of change

I think I speak for everyone if I say that nobody imagined that on an April day like today, I would be locked up at home, and missing what in other circumstances I had never appreciated enough… let’s say we take many things for granted, when actually no...